“Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.”
The image of Israel as morning mist that vanishes and early dew that disappears, like chaff driven from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a window suggests the insubstantiality and ephemerality of Israel's existence apart from covenant relationship with God. The accumulation of images of evanescence emphasizes the futility and transience of Israel's situation. This verse suggests that without covenant relationship, Israel has no substance or permanence.
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