After them, seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up.

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26 Their inhabitants have become powerless,
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,(A)
blasted by the east wind.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 19:26 DSS; MT reads blasted before standing grain; Is 37:27

12 But it was uprooted in fury,(A)
thrown to the ground,
and the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branches were torn off and dried up;(B)
fire consumed them.

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The Coming Judgment

15 Although he flourishes among his brothers,[a](A)
an east wind will come,(B)
a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert.
His water source will fail,
and his spring will run dry.(C)
The wind[b] will plunder the treasury(D)
of every precious item.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:15 Or among reeds
  2. 13:15 Probably the Assyrian king

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind.(A) The sun beat down on Jonah’s head(B) so much that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.”(C)

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