¹⁸ But when it is uprooted,
    it’s as though it never existed!

¹⁶ The wind blows, and we are gone—
    as though we had never been here.

⁹ Those who once saw them will see them no more.
    Their families will never see them again.

²³ But everyone jeers at them
    and mocks them.

²¹ The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
    It sweeps them away.