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

¹⁸ That they are like ^(A)straw before the wind,
    and like ^(B)chaff that the storm carries away?

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.

^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.

⁴ The wicked are not so,
    but are like ^(A)chaff that the wind drives away.