You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse, a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them.”
The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;
He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
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