Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw 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.
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.
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 possess the pastures of God." 13 God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind. 14 Like a fire burning a forest, and a flame setting mountains ablaze.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 21:18
May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.
Psalm 35:5
Make them like the chaff before the wind, as the messenger of the LORD pushes them aside.
Job 13:25
Are you a god who would make a leaf tremble or who would prosecute a dry straw?
Isaiah 40:24
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the earth, than he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest sweeps them away like stubble.
Jeremiah 13:24
I'll scatter them like chaff blown away by a desert wind.
Exodus 15:7
In the greatness of your majesty you broke down your enemies. You sent forth your anger, it consumed them like stubble.
Psalm 22:1
My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far from delivering me from my groaning words?
Psalm 44:4
You are my king, God, command victories for Jacob.
Psalm 68:1-2
God arises, and his enemies are scattered. Those who hate him flee from his presence.
Psalm 74:11-12
Why do you not withdraw your hand your right hand from your bosom and destroy them?
Isaiah 17:12-14
"How terrible it will be for many nations, who rage like the roaring sea! Oh, how the uproar of nations is like the sound of rushing, mighty water How they roar!
Isaiah 41:2
Who has aroused victory from the east, and has summoned it to his service, and has handed over nations to him? Who brings down kings, and turns them into dust with his sword, into windblown stubble with his bow?
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand. He will clean up his threshing floor and gather his grain into the barn, but he will burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire."