Psalms 83:13
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
- KJV
- O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
- WEB
- My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
- ASV
- O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.
- DARBY
- O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
- BLB
- O my God, set them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the face of the wind!
- ÅB
- Min Gud, gjør dem som en støvhvirvel, som agner for vinden!
- OTB
- Min Gud, gjør dem som virvlende støv,
Som agner drevet av vinden. - B1930
- Min Gud, gjør dem som en støvhvirvel, som agner for vinden!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Read in contextPsalms 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Read in contextPsalms 74:11–12
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
Read in contextIsaiah 17:12–14
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
Read in contextJob 13:25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Read in contextJeremiah 13:24
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Read in contextPsalms 44:4
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
Read in context