And thus you find that the L–rd exacted punishment of the men of the generation of the flood and of the men of Sodom with a strong east wind, viz. (Iyyov 4:9) "By the breath of G–d they go lost, and by the wind of His wrath they perish": "By the breath of G–d they go lost" — the generation of the flood; "and by the wind of His wrath they perish" — the generation of Sodom.