Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, as stubble before the 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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before 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 said, Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God. 13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, as stubble before the wind, 14 as the fire that burns the forest, and as the flame that sets the mountains on fire.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 21:18
that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?
Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the agent of LORD driving [them] on.
Job 13:25
Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?
Isaiah 40:24
Yea, they have not been planted. Yea, they have not been sown. Yea, their stock has not taken root in the earth. Moreover he blows upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
Jeremiah 13:24
Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrow those who rise up against thee. Thou send forth thy wrath, it consumes them as stubble.
Psalm 22:1
My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning?
Psalm 44:4
Thou are my King, O God. Command deliverance for Jacob.
Psalm 68:1-2
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. Let also those who hate him flee before him.
Psalm 74:11-12
Why do thou draw back thy hand, even thy right hand? Remove [it] from the midst of thy bosom.
Isaiah 17:12-14
Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
Isaiah 41:2
Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east. He calls him to his foot? He gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.
Matthew 3:12
Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.