How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

他们何尝像风前的碎秸，如暴风刮去的糠秕呢？

他们何尝像风前的碎秸，如暴风刮去的糠秕呢？

他们何尝像风前的碎秸，如暴风刮去的糠秕呢？

他们何曾像风中的碎秸，像被暴风卷去的糠秕？

他们何尝像风前的干草，何尝像暴风刮去的糠秕？

他們何嘗像風前的碎稭，如暴風颳去的糠粃呢？

他們何嘗像風前的碎稭，如暴風颳去的糠粃呢？

他們何嘗像風前的碎稭，如暴風颳去的糠粃呢？

他們何曾像風中的碎稭，像被暴風捲去的糠秕？

他們何嘗像風前的乾草，何嘗像暴風颳去的糠秕？

他們何嘗像風前的禾藁？像暴風颳去的糠粃呢？

彼若飄於風前之草芥、狂飇吹散之粃糠、何嘗有是事哉、

彼若飛蓬、轉於空際、彼若糠秕、散於颶風、又在何時、我未之見也。

彼何嘗如草芥飄於風前、何嘗如糠秕為狂風所吹、

How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?

How often are they like straw blowing in the wind? How often are they like tumbleweeds swept away by a storm?

That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm like chaff? Not at all!

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

Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?

They are like straw before the wind, And like chaff that a storm carries away.

That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

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

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!

Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the LORD’s angel attacks them!

Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.

Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.

In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

“ Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

“ The LORD says,‘ That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.

Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the LORD who commands armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.

Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.