²⁶ Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?^(A)

² “Are all these words to go unanswered?^(A)
    Is this talker to be vindicated?^(B)

² “Would a wise person answer with empty notions
    or fill their belly with the hot east wind?^(A)

⁶ On the wicked he will rain
    fiery coals and burning sulfur;^(A)
    a scorching wind^(B) will be their lot.

⁷ You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish^(A)
    shattered by an east wind.^(B)

¹⁵ The Lord will dry up^(A)
    the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind^(B) he will sweep his hand^(C)
    over the Euphrates River.^(D)
He will break it up into seven streams
    so that anyone can cross over in sandals.^(E)

⁸ By warfare^[a] and exile^(A) you contend with her—
    with his fierce blast he drives her out,
    as on a day the east wind^(B) blows.