Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message—His breath like a surging flood reaching up to the neck, sifting nations through a sieve of destruction, fitting the peoples’ jaws with a bit that drives them to ruin.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G—His Ruach like an overflowing torrent reaching to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of ruin, and to bridle the peoples with a bit that leads them to destruction.
KJV
King James VersionAnd his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleHis breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
Footnotes
*Rucho* (רוּחוֹ, His breath/Spirit/wind) is the same word used of the divine breath hovering over the primordial waters in Genesis 1:2 and breathing life into Adam in Genesis 2:7. Here that same creative breath becomes the instrument of judgment—a devastating inversion of life-giving into life-destroying power. FOG renders it as “Ruach” to surface this intertextual echo; FOG Message uses “breath” to keep the visceral, physical force immediate. The bridle in the jaws directly foreshadows YHWH’s word to the Assyrian king Sennacherib: “I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips” (Isa. 37:29).
