18 That they are like (A)straw before the wind,
    and like (B)chaff that the storm carries away?

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Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of (A)thorns,
    whether green or ablaze, may he (B)sweep them away![a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 58:9 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain

26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like (A)a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

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