It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Bunch yourselves together like straw, ¹  you undesirable ²  nation,

“You must no longer ¹  give straw to the people for making bricks ²  as before. ³  Let them go ⁴  and collect straw for themselves.

So the people spread out ¹  through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

You conceive straw, ¹  you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you. ² 

We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, ¹  “and room for you ²  to spend the night.”

The slave masters were pressuring ¹  them, saying, “Complete ²  your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses. ¹ 

How often ¹  are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away ²  by a whirlwind?

A club is counted ¹  as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, ¹  “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving ²  you straw.

You ¹  go get straw for yourselves wherever you can ²  find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

No straw is given to your servants, but we are told, ¹  ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even ²  being beaten, but the fault ³  is with your people.”

So now, get back to work! ¹  You will not be given straw, but you must still produce ²  your quota ³  of bricks!”

A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. ¹  A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.

So Abraham’s servant ¹  went to the house and unloaded ²  the camels. Straw and feed were given ³  to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet. ⁴ 

We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, ¹  and the young man who is with your servants. ²  We lack nothing.”

For the Lord’s power will make this mountain secure. ¹  Moab will be trampled down where it stands, ²  as a heap of straw is trampled down in ³  a manure pile.

Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

Who stirs up this one from the east? ¹  Who ²  officially commissions him for service? ³  He hands nations over to him, ⁴  and enables him to subdue ⁵  kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow. ⁶