¹⁸ How often are they like straw before the wind
    and like chaff that the storm carries away?^(A)

⁵ Let them be like chaff before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord driving them on.^(A)

²⁵ Will you frighten a windblown leaf
    and pursue dry chaff?^(A)

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)

¹⁰ Like thorns they are entangled;
    like drunkards they are drunk;
    they are consumed like dry straw.^(A)

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)