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)

²⁷ when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
    when disaster^(A) sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
    when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

¹³ Although the peoples roar^(A) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes^(B) them they flee^(C) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff^(D) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.^(E)

²⁴ No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root^(A) in the ground,
than he blows^(B) on them and they wither,^(C)
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.^(D)