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Psalms 83:14
14My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
Psalms 83:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
- New International Version (NIV)As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
- English Standard Version (ESV)As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
- New King James Version (NKJV)As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
Context of Psalms 83:14
12Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb— all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, 13who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.” My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. 15As a fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, 16so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
Read all of Psalms 83Psalms 83:14 word by word
כְּאֵ֥שׁ תִּבְעַר־יָ֑עַר וּ֝כְלֶהָבָ֗ה תְּלַהֵ֥ט הָרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 83:14
- Isaiah 30:33For Topheth has long been ready, prepared for the king, its fire pit made deep and wide, a pyre of fire with plenty of wood. The breath of Adonai, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it aflame.
- Isaiah 33:11You conceive chaff, you will give birth to stubble. My breath is a fire that will consume you.
- Isaiah 64:1As fire kindles brushwood, as fire causes water to boil, make Your Name known to Your foes, so the nations may tremble before You!
- Deuteronomy 32:22For fire has ignited in My nostrils— it will burn to Sheol beneath, devour the earth and her produce, and scorch the foundations of mountains.
- Nahum 1:6Before His indignation who can stand? Who can withstand His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and cliffs break down before Him.
Commentaries on Psalms 83:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The flame setteth the mountains on fire - This may refer to the burning of the straw and chaff, after the grain was threshed and winnowed. And as their threshing-floors were situated often on the hills or mountains, to take the advantage of the wind, the setting the mountains on fire may refer to the burning of the chaff, etc., in those places. Let them be like stubble driven away by the wind, and burnt by the fire.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14As the fire burneth a wood - The same idea is here presented under another form. No image of desolation is more fearful than that of fire raging in a forest; or of fire on the mountains. As trees and shrubs and grass fall before such a flame, so the prayer is, that they who had combined against the people of God might be swept away by his just displeasure.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. 14-15fire … flame … tempest: These images describe how God appears when he brings judgment (see Isaiah 29:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. Pursue them to an utter destruction.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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