¹⁸ How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff^(A) swept away^(B) by a gale?^(C)

⁵ But your many enemies will become like fine dust,^(A)
    the ruthless^(B) hordes like blown chaff.^(C)
Suddenly,^(D) in an instant,
⁶     the Lord Almighty will come^(E)
with thunder^(F) and earthquake^(G) and great noise,
    with windstorm and tempest^(H) and flames of a devouring fire.^(I)
7 Then the hordes of all the nations^(J) that fight against Ariel,^(K)
    that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
will be as it is with a dream,^(L)
    with a vision in the night—