Berean Standard Bible
Psalms 83:13
13Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
Psalms 83:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
- New International Version (NIV)Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.
- English Standard Version (ESV)O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
- New King James Version (NKJV)O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!
Context of Psalms 83:13
11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, 12who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.” Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind. 14As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze, 15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
Read all of Psalms 83Psalms 83:13 word by word
אֱֽלֹהַ֗י שִׁיתֵ֥מוֹ כַגַּלְגַּ֑ל כְּ֝קַ֗שׁ לִפְנֵי־רֽוּחַ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 83:13
- 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 44:4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
- 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.
- Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
- Psalms 68:1God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.”
Commentaries on Psalms 83:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13O may God, make them like a wheel - Alluding to the manner of threshing corn in the east. A large broad wheel was rolled over the grain on a threshing-floor, which was generally in the open air; and the grain being thrown up by a shovel against the wind the chaff was thus separated from it, in the place where it was threshed.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13O my God, make them like a wheel - Or rather, like a rolling thing - something that the wind rolls along. The word גלגל galgal - means properly a wheel, as of a chariot, Ezekiel 10:2, Ezekiel 10:6; or a wheel for drawing water from a well, Ecclesiastes 12:6; then, a whirlwind, Psalm 77:19; and then, anything driven before a whirlwind, as chaff, or stubble, Isaiah 17:13. Compare the notes at Isaiah 22:18. The prayer here is, that they might be utterly…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 9-18 All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their enemies like a wheel; unsettled in all their counsels and resolves. Not only let them be driven away as stubble, but burnt as stubble. And this will be the end of wicked men. Let them be made to fear thy name, and perhaps that will bring them to seek thy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13tumbleweed … chaff: This dry plant material blows away easily (see Isaiah 17:13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. like a wheel--or, whirling of any light thing (Is 17:13), as stubble or chaff (Psa 1:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 83
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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