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)
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)
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
Psalm 1:4
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4 The wicked are not so
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.(A)
Hebrews 11:28
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28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.[a](A)
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- 11.28 Gk would not touch them
Acts 12:23
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23 And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.(A)
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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 37:36
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Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death
36 Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.(A)
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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
Exodus 14:19
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19 The angel of God who was going before the Israelite army moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and took its place behind them.(A)
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Psalm 83:13-17
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13 O my God, make them like whirling dust,[a]
like chaff before the wind.(A)
14 As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,(B)
15 so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane.(C)
16 Fill their faces with shame,
so that they may seek your name, O Lord.
17 Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;
let them perish in disgrace.(D)
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- 83.13 Or a tumbleweed
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