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13 [a]But God shall rebuke them,
    and they shall flee far away,
Driven like chaff on the mountains before a wind,
    like tumbleweed before a storm.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 17:13–14 The passage seems to evoke the motif of invincibility, part of the early Zion tradition that Jerusalem could not be conquered because God protected it (Ps 48:1–8).

Before you are driven away,
    like chaff that disappears;
Before there comes upon you
    the blazing anger of the Lord;
Before there comes upon you
    the day of the Lord’s anger.

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II

But not so are the wicked,[a] not so!
    They are like chaff driven by the wind.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:4 The wicked: those who by their actions distance themselves from God’s life-giving presence.