Lexicon :: Strong's G2562 - kalamē

So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

You overthrew your adversaries

by your great majesty.

You unleashed your burning wrath;

it consumed them like stubble.

They are exalted for a moment, then gone;

they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.[fn]

They wither like heads of grain.

A club is regarded as stubble,

and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like straw before the wind.

The strong one will become tinder,

and his work a spark;

both will burn together,

with no one to extinguish the flames.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw

and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,

so their roots will become like something rotten

and their blossoms will blow away like dust,

for they have rejected

the instruction of the LORD of Armies,

and they have despised

the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Only gleanings will be left in Israel,

as if an olive tree had been beaten —

two or three olives at the very top of the tree,

four or five on its fruitful branches.

This is the declaration of the LORD,

the God of Israel.

I am not angry.

If only there were thorns and briers for me to battle,

I would trample them

and burn them to the ground.

They bound on the tops of the mountains.

Their sound is like the sound of chariots,

like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble,

like a mighty army deployed for war.

Look, I am about to crush[fn] you in your place

as a wagon crushes when full of grain.

Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,

and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,

but the house of Esau will be stubble;

Jacob[fn] will set them on fire and consume Edom.[fn]

Therefore no survivor will remain

of the house of Esau,

for the LORD has spoken.

How sad for me!

For I am like one who —

when the summer fruit has been gathered

after the gleaning of the grape harvest —

finds no grape cluster to eat,

no early fig, which I crave.

For they will be consumed

like entangled thorns,

like the drink of a drunkard

and like straw that is fully dry.[fn]

“On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and the left, while Jerusalem continues to be inhabited on its site, in Jerusalem.

“For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the LORD of Armies, “not leaving them root or branches.