Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Holman Bible
like straw before the wind.
International Standard Version
God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.
A Conservative Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, as stubble before the wind,
American Standard Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.
Amplified
O my God, make them like
Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].
Darby Translation
O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
Julia Smith Translation
O my God, set them as a wheel; as straw before the wind.
King James 2000
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Lexham Expanded Bible
O my God, make them like the tumbleweed, like the chaff before wind.
Modern King James verseion
O my God, make them like a wheel; like the stubble before the wind.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind.
NET Bible
O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
New Heart English Bible
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
The Emphasized Bible
O my God, make them, As whirling dust , As chaff before a wind;
Webster
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
World English Bible
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
Themes
Hate » Those that hate the lord
Stubble » Figurative » Of wicked people
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 83:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against Enemies
12 Who have said, 'Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.' 13 O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind. 14 As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,
Phrases
Cross References
Job 21:18
They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
Psalm 35:5
They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.
Job 13:25
A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
Isaiah 40:24
Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.
Jeremiah 13:24
And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.
Exodus 15:7
And in the abundance of Thine excellency Thou throwest down Thy withstanders, Thou sendest forth Thy wrath -- It consumeth them as stubble.
Psalm 22:1
To the Overseer, on 'The Hind of the Morning.' -- A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?
Psalm 44:4
Thou art He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
Psalm 68:1-2
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God -- scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face.
Psalm 74:11-12
Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove it.
Isaiah 17:12-14
Woe to the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And to the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.
Isaiah 41:2
Who stirred up from the east a righteous one? He calleth him to His foot, He giveth before him nations, And kings He causeth him to rule, He giveth them as dust to his sword, As driven stubble to his bow.
Matthew 3:12
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'