Psalm 35:5

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Summary

Psalm 35:5

Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

As chaff

And

General references

Psalm 18:37

Bible References

As chaff

This is not so for the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

The nations will rush like the raging of many waters. But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away. They will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, like a rolling dust before the whirlwind.

Your cruel enemies will be swept away like dust in a windstorm. It will be sudden and unexpected like chaff in the wind.

That is why they will be like fog in the morning and like morning dew that disappears quickly. They will be like straw blown away from threshing floors. They will be like smoke rising from chimneys.

And

The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.

The angel of Jehovah put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. The people got up the next morning and saw all the dead bodies!

Immediately the angel of God killed him, because he did not give God the glory. He was eaten by worms and died.

By faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

General references

I chased my enemies and caught up with them. I did not return until I had ended their lives.