Psalm 83:13 {82:14}
Good News Translation
Scatter them like dust, O God, like straw blown away by the wind.

New Revised Standard Version
O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

Contemporary English Version
Our God, scatter them around like dust in a whirlwind.

New American Bible
My God, make them like tumbleweed, into chaff flying before the wind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

O my

Psalm 22:1 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.

Psalm 44:4 For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.

Psalm 74:11,12 Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever? . . .

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Isaiah 17:12-14 Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters. . . .

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Psalm 35:5 Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

Psalm 68:1,2 Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself. [2] Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face. . . .

Exodus 15:7 And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble.

Job 13:25 Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

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

Isaiah 40:24 And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Isaiah 41:2 Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to follow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule over kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble driven by the wind, to his bow.

Jeremiah 13:24 And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert.

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Context
Do Not Be Still, O God
12Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance. 13O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.14As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:…
Cross References
Job 21:18
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Psalm 18:42
And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.

Psalm 35:5
Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

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 40:24
And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Jeremiah 13:24
And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert.

Psalm 83:12
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