Isaiah 40:24
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24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
(A)and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
Isaiah 41:16
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16 (A)you shall winnow them, and (B)the wind shall carry them away,
and the tempest shall scatter them.
(C)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
Isaiah 17:13
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13 (A)The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
(B)but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased (C)like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and (D)whirling dust before the storm.
Zechariah 9:14
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The Lord Will Save His People
14 Then the Lord will appear over them,
and (A)his arrow will go forth like lightning;
(B)the Lord God will sound the trumpet
and will march forth in (C)the whirlwinds (D)of the south.
Haggai 1:9
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9 (A)You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, (B)I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house (C)that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.
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Nahum 1:14
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14 The Lord has given commandment about you:
(A)“No more shall your name be perpetuated;
from (B)the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the metal image.
(C)I will make your grave, (D)for you are vile.”
Hosea 13:15
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15 Though (A)he may flourish among his brothers,
(B)the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
rising from the wilderness,
(C)and his fountain shall dry up;
his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip (D)his treasury
of every precious thing.
Hosea 13:3
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3 Therefore they shall be (A)like the morning mist
or (B)like the dew that goes early away,
(C)like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or (D)like smoke from a window.
Jeremiah 23:19
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19 (A)Behold, the storm of the Lord!
Wrath has gone forth,
(B)a whirling tempest;
it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
Jeremiah 22:30
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30 Thus says the Lord:
“Write this man down as (A)childless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days,
(B)for none of his offspring shall succeed
(C)in sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.”
Isaiah 40:7
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7 The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
Isaiah 37:7
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7 Behold, (A)I will put a spirit in him, so that (B)he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and (C)I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’”
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Isaiah 17:11
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11 though you make them grow[a] on the day that you plant them,
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away[b]
in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 17:11 Or though you carefully fence them
- Isaiah 17:11 Or will be a heap
Isaiah 14:21-22
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21 Prepare slaughter for his sons
(A)because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
and fill the face of the world with cities.”
22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and (B)remnant, (C)descendants and posterity,” declares the Lord.
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Isaiah 11:4
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4 but (A)with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall (B)strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and (C)with the breath of his lips (D)he shall kill the wicked.
Proverbs 1:27
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27 when terror strikes you like (A)a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
Psalm 58:9
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9 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of (A)thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he (B)sweep them away![a]
Footnotes
- Psalm 58:9 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
Job 21:18
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Job 18:16-19
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16 His (A)roots dry up beneath,
and his branches (B)wither above.
17 His (C)memory perishes from the earth,
and he has no name in the street.
18 (D)He is thrust from light into darkness,
and driven out of the world.
19 He has no (E)posterity or progeny among his people,
and no survivor where he used to live.
Job 15:30-33
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30 he will not depart from darkness;
the flame will dry up his shoots,
and by (A)the breath of his mouth he will depart.
31 Let him not (B)trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his payment.
32 It will be paid in full (C)before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
Job 4:9
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2 Kings 10:11
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11 So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
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1 Kings 21:21-22
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21 Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and (A)will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. 22 And I will make your house like (B)the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like (C)the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you (D)have made Israel to sin.
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2 Samuel 22:16
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16 Then the channels of the sea were seen;
the foundations of the world were laid bare,
at the rebuke of the Lord,
at the (A)blast of the breath of his nostrils.
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