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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.
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
For they said: Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands.
13
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Job 21:18
How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
Psalm 35:5
Let them be like chaff blown by the wind as the angel of Jehovah chases them.
Job 13:25
Will you torment a leaf driven two and fro? Will you chase after dry chaff?
Isaiah 40:24
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
Jeremiah 13:24
I will scatter you like straw that is blown away by a desert wind.
Exodus 15:7
In the greatness of your excellence you overthrow those who rose up against you. You sent your wrath and consumed them like stubble.
Psalm 22:1
([Psalm of David]) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far away from my deliverance, so far away from the words of my moaning?
Psalm 44:4
You alone are my king, O God. You won those victories for Jacob.
Psalm 68:1-2
([Psalm of David]) Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered. Let those who hate him run from 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
There will be trouble for the multitude of people, because they will roar like the roar of the seas. Woe to the rushing of nations that makes a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
Isaiah 41:2
Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.