Chaff

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

…before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”