They are exalted for a little, but shortly are they gone, brought to extreme poverty, and taken out of the way: yea, and utterly plucked off, as the ears of corn.

I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

He shall be plucked off as an untimely grape from the vine, and shall let his flower fall, as the olive doth.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am undone: My hope hath he taken away from me, as it were a tree plucked up by the root.