Psalm 1:4
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4 The wicked are not so
but are like chaff that the wind drives 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)
Matthew 3:12
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12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”(A)
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Psalm 35:5
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5 Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them on.(A)
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)
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)
Footnotes
- 17.13 Heb mss Syr lack When . . . waters
Isaiah 29:5
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5 But the multitude of your arrogant ones[a] shall be like fine dust
and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff.
And in an instant, suddenly,(A)
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- 29.5 Q ms Compare Gk: MT strangers
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