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

⁹ Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns^(A)—
    whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.^[a](B)

¹⁹ How suddenly^(A) are they destroyed,
    completely swept away^(B) by terrors!

⁵ Yet you sweep people away^(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning: