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Psalms 83:13
13O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, 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
11Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, 12for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!” O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind! 14As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, 15chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.
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 abandoned me? Why are you so far away when I groan for help?
- Psalms 44:4You are my King and my God. You command victories for Israel.
- Psalms 74:11Why do you hold back your strong right hand? Unleash your powerful fist and destroy them.
- Isaiah 17:12Listen! The armies of many nations roar like the roaring of the sea. Hear the thunder of the mighty forces as they rush forward like thundering waves.
- Psalms 35:5Blow them away like chaff in the wind— a wind sent by the angel of the Lord.
- Psalms 68:1Rise up, O God, and scatter your enemies. Let those who hate God run for their lives.
- Exodus 15:7In the greatness of your majesty, you overthrow those who rise against you. You unleash your blazing fury; it consumes them like straw.
- Job 13:25Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind? Would you chase dry straw?
- Job 21:18Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm like chaff? Not at all!
- Isaiah 40:24They hardly get started, barely taking root, when he blows on them and they wither. The wind carries them off like chaff.
- Isaiah 41:2“Who has stirred up this king from the east, rightly calling him to God’s service? Who gives this man victory over many nations and permits him to trample their kings underfoot? With his sword, he reduces armies to dust. With his bow, he scatters them like chaff before the wind.
- Jeremiah 13:24“I will scatter you like chaff that is blown away by the desert winds.
- Matthew 3:12He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending 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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