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Psalms 83:13
13O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the 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 Living Translation (NLT)O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!
Context of Psalms 83:13
11Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, 12Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.” O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind! 14As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire, 15So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.
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 forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?
- Psalms 44:4You are my King, O God; Command victories for Jacob.
- Psalms 74:11Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.
- Isaiah 17:12Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas, And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
- Psalms 35:5Let them be like chaff before the wind, And let the angel of the Lord chase them.
- Psalms 68:1Let God arise, Let His enemies be scattered; Let those also who hate Him flee before Him.
- Exodus 15:7And in the greatness of Your excellence You have overthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth Your wrath; It consumed them like stubble.
- Job 13:25Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?
- Job 21:18They are like straw before the wind, And like chaff that a storm carries away.
- Isaiah 40:24Scarcely shall they be planted, Scarcely shall they be sown, Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth, When He will also blow on them, And they will wither, And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.
- Isaiah 41:2“Who raised up one from the east? Who in righteousness called him to His feet? Who gave the nations before him, And made him rule over kings? Who gave them as the dust to his sword, As driven stubble to his bow?
- Jeremiah 13:24“Therefore I will scatter them like stubble That passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and 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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