'Chaff' in the Bible

“And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You;You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.

“Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?Or will You pursue the dry chaff?

“Are they as straw before the wind,And like chaff which the storm carries away?

The wicked are not so,But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

Let them be like chaff before the wind,With the angel of the Lord driving them on.

O my God, make them like the whirling dust,Like chaff before the wind.

The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away,And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind,Or like whirling dust before a gale.

But the multitude of your enemies will become like fine dust,And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away;And it will happen instantly, suddenly.

“You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble;My breath will consume you like a fire.

“Who has aroused one from the eastWhom He calls in righteousness to His feet?He delivers up nations before himAnd subdues kings.He makes them like dust with his sword,As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.

“Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges;You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them,And will make the hills like chaff.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Therefore they will be like the morning cloudAnd like dew which soon disappears,Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floorAnd like smoke from a chimney.

Before the decree takes effect—The day passes like the chaff—Before the burning anger of the Lord comes upon you,Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you.

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”