Psalm 83:13
Modern Translations
New International Version
Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.

New Living Translation
O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!

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

Berean Study Bible
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

New American Standard Bible
My God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

NASB 1995
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

NASB 1977
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; Like chaff before the wind.

Amplified Bible
O my God, make them like whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].

Christian Standard Bible
Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.

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

Good News Translation
Scatter them like dust, O God, like straw blown away by the wind.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
O my God, blow them away like tumbleweeds, like husks in the wind.

International Standard Version
God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.

NET Bible
O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

New King James Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!

King James 2000 Bible
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

New Heart English Bible
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

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

American King James Version
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

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

A Faithful Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, like the stubble before the wind.

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

English Revised Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.

Webster's Bible Translation
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
O my God, make them like vnto a wheele, and as the stubble before the winde.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
O my Lorde, make them lyke vnto a wheele: and as chaffe before the winde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
O my God, make them like vnto a whele, and as the stuble before the wynde.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
O my God, make them as a rolling thing, "" As stubble before wind.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
O my God, set them as a wheel; as straw before the wind.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
God, make them like a tumble weed and like a straw before the wind,

Lamsa Bible
O God, make them like a turning wheel; and like stubble before the wind.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.
















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