Psalms 83:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.”
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BSBPD
“Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 83:13 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 15:7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
- Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
- Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
- Psalms 44:4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
- Psalms 68:1God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.
- Psalms 74:11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
- Isaiah 17:12Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
- Isaiah 40:24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
- Isaiah 41:2Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
- Jeremiah 13:24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- Ezekiel 35:10Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,
- Ezekiel 36:2This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
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