Psalms 35:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.”
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“May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah drivingthemon.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 35:5 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 14:19And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Psalms 83:13Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
- Psalms 90:9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
- Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- Lamentations 3:66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
- Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Hebrews 11:28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
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