Psalm 83:13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.

English Standard Version
O my God, make them like whirling dust, 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 Bible
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Holman Christian Standard 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.

American Standard Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.

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

Darby Bible Translation
O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.

Young's Literal Translation
O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

Cross References

Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

Psalm 18:42
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

Isaiah 40:24
Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Jeremiah 13:24
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

83:9-18 All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their enemies like a wheel; unsettled in all their counsels and resolves. Not only let them be driven away as stubble, but burnt as stubble. And this will be the end of wicked men. Let them be made to fear thy name, and perhaps that will bring them to seek thy name. We should desire no confusion to our enemies and persecutors but what may forward their conversion. The stormy tempest of Divine vengeance will overtake them, unless they repent and seek the pardoning mercy of their offended Lord. God's triumphs over his enemies, clearly prove that he is, according to his name JEHOVAH, an almighty Being, who has all power and perfection in himself. May we fear his wrath, and yield ourselves to be his willing servants. And let us seek deliverance by the destruction of our fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. like a wheel—or, whirling of any light thing (Isa 17:13), as stubble or chaff (Ps 1:4).