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Psalms 83:13
13God, blow them away like dust, like chaff that blows away in 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
11Do to their leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb. Let their rulers die, like Zebah and Zalmunna. 12Those people said, ‘Let us take God's valuable country for ourselves!’ God, blow them away like dust, like chaff that blows away in the wind! 14Go after them, like a fire that burns both forest and mountains. 15Chase them away with your storms. Frighten them with your strong winds.
Read all of Psalms 83Psalms 83:13 word by word
אֱֽלֹהַ֗י שִׁיתֵ֥מוֹ כַגַּלְגַּ֑ל כְּ֝קַ֗שׁ לִפְנֵי־רֽוּחַ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 83:13
- Psalms 22:1My God! My God, why have you left me alone? Why is my help far away? I am crying out in great pain!
- Psalms 44:4God, you are my king! You command that Jacob's descendants must win against their enemies.
- Psalms 74:11Why do you do nothing to help us? Use your power now to punish them!
- Isaiah 17:12It will be very bad for the armies of other nations! They are making a noise like the sea in a storm! They are as loud as powerful waves!
- Psalms 35:5Make them become like chaff that the wind blows away. Send the angel of the Lord to chase them away.
- Psalms 68:1God will rise up and he will chase his enemies away! The people who hate him will quickly run away from him!
- Exodus 15:7With your powerful authority, you killed your enemies. You were very angry with them. You killed them, like a fire burns dry grass.
- Job 13:25I am as weak as a leaf that the wind can blow away. But you still want to frighten me. I am as useless as chaff, but you still attack me.
- Job 21:18He does not blow them away, like the wind blows dry grass. They do not disappear like chaff that a storm blows away.
- Isaiah 40:24They are like plants that soon disappear. Somebody plants them in the ground. But while their roots are still growing into the soil, God blows on them and they become dry. Then the wind carries them away like straw.
- Isaiah 41:2Tell me, who has woken up that king in the east? Who has chosen that king to serve him? He has given that king power over many nations, so that the kings of those nations must obey him. He uses that king's weapons to destroy other nations. He blows them away like dust or straw.
- Jeremiah 13:24The Lord says, ‘I will blow you away, as a hot desert wind blows away straw.
- Matthew 3:12He is like a farmer that brings the wheat home from his field. He uses a special tool to throw the wheat up in the air. He does this to make the wheat seeds separate from what remains. Then he cleans his yard. He carefully stores all the seeds to keep them safe. But he burns everything else in a great fire that nobody can put out.’
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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