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)
Hosea 6:4
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Impenitence of Israel and Judah
4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that goes away early.(A)
Psalm 1:4
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4 The wicked are not so
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.(A)
Psalm 68:2
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2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
as wax melts before the fire,
let the wicked perish before God.(A)
Daniel 2:35
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35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were all broken in pieces and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.(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)
Footnotes
- 17.13 Heb mss Syr lack When . . . waters
Isaiah 41:15-16
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15 I will make of you a threshing sledge,
sharp, new, and having teeth;
you shall thresh the mountains and crush them,
and you shall make the hills like chaff.(A)
16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away,
and the tempest shall scatter them.
Then you shall rejoice in the Lord;
in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.(B)
Psalm 83:12-17
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12 who said, “Let us take the pastures of God
for our own possession.”(A)
13 O my God, make them like whirling dust,[a]
like chaff before the wind.(B)
14 As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,(C)
15 so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane.(D)
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.(E)
Footnotes
- 83.13 Or a tumbleweed
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