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13 [a]But God shall rebuke them,
    and they shall flee far away,
Driven like chaff on the mountains before a wind,
    like tumbleweed before a storm.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 17:13–14 The passage seems to evoke the motif of invincibility, part of the early Zion tradition that Jerusalem could not be conquered because God protected it (Ps 48:1–8).

43 I ground them to dust before the wind;
    I left them like mud in the streets.

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

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