⁵ They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

¹⁸ They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

⁵ And as small dust hath been The multitude of those scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the terrible, And it hath been at an instant -- suddenly.

⁴ Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away!

²⁸ by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.

²³ and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

³ Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.

³⁶ And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and `men' rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them `are' dead corpses.

¹³ Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

¹⁹ And the messenger of God, who is going before the camp of Israel, journeyeth and goeth at their rear; and the pillar of the cloud journeyeth from their front, and standeth at their rear,

¹³ O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

¹⁴ As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

¹⁵ So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

¹⁶ Fill their faces `with' shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.

¹⁷ They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.