Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the 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.
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.
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 say, "We will have the houses of God in possession." 13 O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind. 14 Like as a fire that burneth up the wood, and as the flame that consumeth the mountains.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 21:18
Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.
Psalm 35:5
Let them be as the dust before the wind, and the angel of the LORD scattering them.
Job 13:25
Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble?
Isaiah 40:24
so that they be not planted, nor sown again, neither their stock rooted again in the earth? For as soon as he bloweth upon them, they wither and fade away, like the straw in a whirlwind.
Jeremiah 13:24
Therefore will I scatter you, like as the stubble that is taken away with the south wind.
Exodus 15:7
And with thy great glory thou hast destroyed thine adversaries! Thou sentest forth thy wrath and it consumed them, even as stubble.
Psalm 22:1
{To the Chanter, upon Aijeleth of the dawning, a Psalm of David} My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint?
Psalm 44:4
Thou art my King, O God; send help unto Jacob.
Psalm 68:1-2
{To the Chanter, a Psalm and song of David} Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; let them also that hate him flee before him.
Psalm 74:11-12
Why withdrawest thou thy hand? Why pluckest thou not thy righthand out of thy bosom, to consume thy enemies?
Isaiah 17:12-14
Woe be to the multitude of much people, which shall make a sound like the noise of the sea; and the violence of the nations which shall rage like the rushing in of many waters.
Isaiah 41:2
Who raiseth up the just from the rising of the Sun, and calleth him to go forth? Who casteth down the people, and subdueth the kings before him: that he may throw them all to the ground with his sword, and scatter them like stubble with his bow?
Matthew 3:12
Which hath also his fan in his hand, and will purge his floor, and gather the wheat into His garner; and will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire."