¹⁸ How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff^(A) swept away^(B) by a gale?^(C)

⁴ Not so the wicked!
    They are like chaff^(A)
    that the wind blows away.

⁵ May they be like chaff^(A) before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord^(B) driving them away;

¹³ Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
    like chaff^(A) before the wind.

¹³ Although the peoples roar^(A) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes^(B) them they flee^(C) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff^(D) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.^(E)

¹⁷ who drew out^(A) the chariots and horses,^(B)
    the army and reinforcements together,^(C)
and they lay^(D) there, never to rise again,
    extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:^(E)