²¹ The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

²³ And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.

²⁴ So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation.

²⁵ And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken.

³ The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

⁴ He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

⁵ The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

⁶ Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.

⁷ The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.

⁸ But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

¹⁵ Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.

¹⁷ I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

¹⁵ So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.

⁹ Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

⁶ On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

¹⁸ How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

¹⁰ He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.