Psalm 83:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. More versionsKing 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. 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. 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. |
How often are they like straw before the wind and like chaff that the storm carries away?
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them on.
In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you sent out your fury; it consumed them like stubble.
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
Who has roused a victor from the east, summoned him to his service? He delivers up nations to him and tramples kings under foot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Because you said, “These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them”—although the Lord was there—
Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy said of you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights have become our possession,”
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”