Psalms 35:5

3 Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul: “I am your salvation.”

4 May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.

May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

6 May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.

7 For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
KJV
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
WEB
Let them be as chaff before the wind, the LORD’s angel driving them on.
ASV
Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving [them] on.
DARBY
Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive [them] away;
BLB
Let them be like chaff before the wind, and the angel of YHWH driving [them] away.
ÅB
La dem bli som agner for vinden,
og la Herrens engel støte dem bort!
OTB
La dem være som agner for vinden,
Med Herrens engel som driver dem videre.
B1930
La dem bli som agner for vinden, og Herrens engel støte dem bort!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 21:18

    Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

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  • Isaiah 29:5

    But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

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  • Hebrews 11:28

    By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.

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  • Hosea 13:3

    Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

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  • Exodus 14:19

    And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,

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  • Psalms 1:4

    Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

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  • Isaiah 17:13

    The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

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  • Isaiah 37:36

    Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

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