¹⁹ He leads priests away stripped^(A)
    and overthrows officials long established.^(B)

⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?^[a](A)

⁴² I beat them as fine as windblown dust;^(A)
    I trampled them^[a] like mud in the streets.

³ Lord, what are human beings^(A) that you care for them,
    mere mortals that you think of them?

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)

⁵ But your many enemies will become like fine dust,^(A)
    the ruthless^(B) hordes like blown chaff.^(C)
Suddenly,^(D) in an instant,

¹⁵ Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
    they are regarded as dust on the scales;^(A)
    he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.^(B)