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18 Let them be like straw before the wind,
    like chaff the storm carries away!

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

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Therefore, they will be like a morning cloud
    or like the dew that vanishes with the dawn,
Like chaff storm-driven from the threshing floor(A)
    or like smoke out of the window.

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Therefore they will be like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears,(A)
    like chaff(B) swirling from a threshing floor,(C)
    like smoke(D) escaping through a window.

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10 [a]Like a thorny thicket, they are tangled,
    and like drunkards, they are drunk;
    like dry stubble, they are utterly consumed.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:10 Thorns (Is 34:13), drunkenness (Lam 4:21; Na 3:11), and burning stubble (Ob 18) are all images of the judgment of God’s enemies.

10 They will be entangled among thorns(A)
    and drunk(B) from their wine;
    they will be consumed like dry stubble.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.