40:24 Indeed, they are barely planted;
yes, they are barely sown;
yes, they barely take root in the earth,
and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up,
and the wind carries them away like straw.
41:2 Who stirs up this one from the east? 1
Who 2 officially commissions him for service? 3
He hands nations over to him, 4
and enables him to subdue 5 kings.
He makes them like dust with his sword,
like windblown straw with his bow. 6
83:13 O my God, make them like dead thistles, 9
like dead weeds blown away by 10 the wind!
83:14 Like the fire that burns down the forest,
or the flames that consume the mountainsides, 11
83:15 chase them with your gale winds,
and terrify 12 them with your windstorm.
2:5 They sound like 13 chariots rumbling 14 over mountain tops,
like the crackling 15 of blazing fire consuming stubble,
like the noise of 16 a mighty army 17 being drawn up for battle. 18
1:18 The descendants of Jacob will be a fire,
and the descendants of Joseph a flame.
The descendants of Esau will be like stubble.
They will burn them up and devour them.
There will not be a single survivor 19 of the descendants of Esau!”
Indeed, the Lord has spoken it.
1:10 Surely they will be totally consumed 20
like 21 entangled thorn bushes, 22
like the drink of drunkards, 23
like very 24 dry stubble.
4:1 (3:19) 25 “For indeed the day 26 is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It 27 will not leave even a root or branch.