Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind.

King James Version

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Holman Bible

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
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 whirling dust,
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.

References

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Context Readings

Prayer Against Enemies

12 who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God." 13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind.
14 As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

Cross References

Job 21:18

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

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them away!

Job 13:25

Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

Jeremiah 13:24

I will scatter youlike chaff driven by the wind from the desert.

Exodus 15:7

In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.

Psalm 22:1

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

Psalm 44:4

You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob!

Psalm 68:1-2

God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him!

Psalm 74:11-12

Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!

Isaiah 17:12-14

Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!

Isaiah 41:2

Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

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