Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.
Psalm 83:13 - Catholic Public Domain Version He will not withhold good things from those who walk in innocence. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who hopes in you. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O my God, make them like a wheel; As the stubble before the wind. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O my God, make them like whirling dust, like stubble or chaff before the wind! American Standard Version (1901) O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind. Common English Bible My God, make them like tumbleweeds, like chaff blown by wind. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. English Standard Version 2016 O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. |
Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.
They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.
A Psalm of David. The Lord directs me, and nothing will be lacking to me.
He has been considering iniquity on his bed. He has set himself on every way that is not good; moreover, he has not hated evil.
And in the multitude of your glory you have put down your adversaries. You sent out your wrath, which devoured them like stubble.
And certainly, their stalk was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the ground. He has suddenly blown them across them, and they have withered, and a whirlwind will carry them away like chaff.
Who has raised up a just man from the east, and has called him to follow him? He will place the nations under his gaze, and he will rule over kings. He will cause them to be like dust before his sword, like chaff driven by the wind before his bow.
And I will scatter them like chaff, which is carried away by the wind in the desert.
For you have said, 'Two nations and two lands will be mine, and I will possess them as an inheritance,' though the Lord was in that place.
Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy has said about you: 'It is well! The everlasting heights have been given to us as an inheritance!'
His winnowing fan is in his hand. And he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."