Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

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!

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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Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Prayer Against Enemies

12 who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands." 13 My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind. 14 As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Cross References

Job 21:18

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

Psalm 35:5

Let them be as chaff before the wind, The LORD's angel driving them on.

Job 13:25

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

Isaiah 40:24

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on 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

In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

Psalm 22:1

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

Psalm 44:4

You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob.

Psalm 68:1-2

Let God arise. Let his enemies be scattered. Let them who hate him also flee before him.

Psalm 74:11-12

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them.

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 has raised up one from the east? Whom he called to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

Matthew 3:12

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

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