“Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.”
Scarcely have they been planted, scarcely have they been sown, scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind carries them away like stubble, establishing that human power and growth are as transient as plants before wind. The oracle uses the natural image of withering plants to suggest the speed and totality with which human power can be destroyed. The metaphor emphasizes the impermanence of political authority.
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