and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I -- only I alone -- escaped to tell you!"

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

But now, the sun cannot be looked at -- it is bright in the skies -- after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

"At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be told, 'A scorching wind will sweep down from the hilltops in the desert on my dear people. It will not be a gentle breeze for winnowing the grain and blowing away the chaff.

They sweep by like the wind and pass on. But the one who considers himself a god will be held guilty."

Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; his well will become dry. That wind will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.

David went on to say, "As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

David thought to himself, "One of these days I'm going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand."

They attacked Judah and swept through it. They carried off everything they found in the royal palace, including his sons and wives. None of his sons was left, except for his youngest, Ahaziah.

But if you continue to do evil, both you and your king will be swept away."

When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

There is abundant food in the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.

The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.

But suppose the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people. Then the sword comes and takes one of their lives. He is swept away for his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for that person's death.'

Armies will be suddenly swept away in defeat before him; both they and a covenant leader will be destroyed.

Those who share the king's fine food will attempt to destroy him, and his army will be swept away; many will be killed in battle.

I will destroy both the winter and summer houses. The houses filled with ivory will be ruined, the great houses will be swept away." The Lord is speaking!

You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.

The Lord said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by." A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

He brought the east wind through the sky, and by his strength led forth the south wind.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Awake, O north wind; come, O south wind! Blow on my garden so that its fragrant spices may send out their sweet smell. May my beloved come into his garden and eat its delightful fruit!

The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.

When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

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.

Ephraim continually feeds on the wind; he chases the east wind all day; he multiplies lies and violence. They make treaties with Assyria, and send olive oil as tribute to Egypt.

So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!

He mounted a winged angel and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind.

They said to him, "Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys." But Elisha replied, "Don't send them out."

for this is what the Lord says, 'You will not feel any wind or see any rain, but this valley will be full of water and you and your cattle and animals will drink.'

Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel.

Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

"How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?

"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?

When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.

Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

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

For the music director, to be accompanied by wind instruments; a psalm of David. Listen to what I say, Lord! Carefully consider my complaint!

He mounted a winged angel and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind.

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

With an east wind you shatter the large ships.

I will hurry off to a place that is safe from the strong wind and the gale."

As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

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

Be strong and act like men, you Philistines, or else you will wind up serving the Hebrews the way they have served you! Act like men and fight!"

but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.

He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends?

O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, so is the one who boasts of a gift not given.

The north wind brings forth rain, and a gossiping tongue brings forth an angry look.

Whoever hides her hides the wind or grasps oil with his right hand.