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 upon them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.(A)
Isaiah 41:16
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16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away,
and the tempest shall scatter them.
Then you shall rejoice in the Lord;
in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.(A)
Isaiah 17:13
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13 [[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]][a]
he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and like whirling dust before the storm.(A)
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- 17.13 Heb mss Syr lack When . . . waters
Zechariah 9:14
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14 Then the Lord will appear over them,
and his arrow go forth like lightning;
the Lord God will sound the trumpet
and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.(A)
Zechariah 7:14
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14 and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and a pleasant land was made desolate.”(A)
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Haggai 1:9
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9 You have looked for much, but it came to little, and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses.(A)
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Nahum 1:14
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14 The Lord has commanded concerning you:
Your name shall be perpetuated no longer;
from the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the cast image.
I will prepare your grave, for you are worthless.(A)
Hosea 13:15
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15 Although he may flourish among rushes,[a]
the east wind shall come, a blast from the Lord,
rising from the wilderness,
and his fountain shall dry up;
his spring shall be parched.
It shall strip his treasury
of every precious thing.(A)
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- 13.15 Or among brothers
Hosea 13:3
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3 Therefore they shall be like the morning mist
or like the dew that goes away early,
like chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or like smoke from a window.(A)
Jeremiah 23:19
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19 Look, the storm of the Lord!
Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling tempest;
it will burst upon the head of the wicked.(A)
Jeremiah 22:30
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30 Thus says the Lord:
Record this man as childless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days,
for none of his offspring shall succeed
in sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.(A)
Isaiah 40:7
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7 The grass withers; the flower fades,
[[when the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
surely the people are grass.(A)
Isaiah 37:7
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7 I myself will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”]][a](A)
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Isaiah 17:11
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11 though you make them grow on the day that you plant them
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away
in a day of sickness and incurable pain.(A)
Isaiah 14:21-22
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21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
because of the guilt of their father.[a]
Let them never rise to possess the earth
or cover the face of the world with cities.(A)
22 I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.(B)
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- 14.21 Syr Compare Gk: Heb fathers
Isaiah 11:4
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4 but with righteousness he shall judge for the poor
and decide with equity for the oppressed of the earth;
he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.(A)
Proverbs 1:27
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27 when panic strikes you like 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 thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!(A)
Job 21:18
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18 How often are they like straw before the wind
and like chaff that the storm carries away?(A)
Job 18:16-19
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16 Their roots dry up beneath,
and their branches wither above.(A)
17 Their memory perishes from the earth,
and they have no name in the street.(B)
18 They are thrust from light into darkness
and driven out of the world.
19 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
and no survivor where they used to live.(C)
Job 15:30-33
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30 they will not escape from darkness;
the flame will dry up their shoots,
and their blossom[a] will be swept away by the wind.(A)
31 Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves,
for emptiness will be their recompense.(B)
32 It will be paid in full before their time,
and their branch will not be green.(C)
33 They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine,
and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.(D)
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- 15.30 Gk: Heb mouth
Job 4:9
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9 By the breath of God they perish,
and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.(A)
2 Kings 10:11
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11 So Jehu killed all who were left of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his leaders, close friends, and priests, until he left him no survivor.
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1 Kings 21:21-22
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21 I will bring disaster on you; I will consume you and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel,(A) 22 and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked me to anger and have caused 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 blast of the breath of his nostrils.(A)
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