Revised Literal Translation
Psalms 83:13
13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble 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 like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: 12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; 15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy 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 hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
- Psalms 44:4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
- Psalms 74:11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
- Isaiah 17:12Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
- Psalms 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of Yhwh chase them.
- Psalms 68:1Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
- Exodus 15:7And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
- Job 13:25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Isaiah 40:24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
- Isaiah 41:2Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
- Jeremiah 13:24Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
- Matthew 3:12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; 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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