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

Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.

along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.

“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.