The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it hurls him out of his place, extending the natural imagery by suggesting that cosmic forces—the east wind—becomes the agent of the wicked's removal. The lifting and hurling suggest violent displacement, that the wicked is torn from whatever stability he has constructed. The double assertion he is gone and hurled out of his place emphasizes finality and complete dislocation, that the wicked loses place and standing simultaneously. The depiction of cosmic forces as the agent suggests that divine order itself becomes arrayed against the wicked.

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