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 have said, Let us inherit for ourselves the habitations of God. 13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind.
14 As the fire burns a wood and as the flame sets the mountains on fire

Cross References

Job 21:18

They shall be as stubble before the wind and as chaff taken up by the whirlwind.

Psalm 35:5

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

Job 13:25

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Isaiah 40:24

As if they had never been planted, as if they had never been sown, as if their stock had never taken root in the earth; even blowing upon them, 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 hast overthrown those that rose up against thee; thou didst send forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

Psalm 22:1

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my cry?

Psalm 44:4

Thou art my King, O God; command saving health unto Jacob.

Psalm 68:1-2

Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those that hate him flee before him.

Psalm 74:11-12

Why dost thou withdraw thy hand, even thy right hand? Why dost thou hide it in thy bosom.

Isaiah 17:12-14

Woe to the multitude of many peoples, which shall make a noise like the noise of the sea; and the rushing of nations, that make an uprising like the rushing of mighty waters!

Isaiah 41:2

Who raised up righteousness from the east, called him that he might follow him, gave the Gentiles before him, and made him rule over kings? He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow.

Matthew 3:12

whose fan is in his hand; and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with fire that shall never be quenched.

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