⁹ ‘You are to say, “This is what the Lord God says: Will it flourish? Will he not tear out its roots^(A) and strip off its fruit so that it shrivels? All its fresh leaves will wither! Great strength and many people will not be needed to pull it from its roots.

The Day of the Lord

4 ‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.