Psalm 35:5 {34:5}
Good News Translation
May they be like straw blown by the wind as the angel of the LORD pursues them!

New Revised Standard Version
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them on.

Contemporary English Version
Send your angel after them and let them be like straw in the wind.

New American Bible
Make them like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them on.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

as chaff

Psalm 1:4 Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Psalm 83:13-17 O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind. . . .

Job 21:18 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Isaiah 17:13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Isaiah 29:5 And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed against thee.

Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

and

Exodus 14:19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removing, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the forepart,

Isaiah 37:36 And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold they were all dead corpses.

Acts 12:23 And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

Hebrews 11:28 By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them.

Context
Contend with My Opponents
4Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me. 5Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.6Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.…
Cross References
Job 21:18
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Psalm 1:4
Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Psalm 83:13
O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

Isaiah 29:5
And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed against thee.

Habakkuk 3:6
He stood and measured the earth. He beheld, and melted the nations: and the ancient mountains were crushed to pieces. The hills of the world were bowed down by the journeys of his eternity.

Psalm 35:4
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