Psalm 1:4

New International Reader's Version

Sinful people are not like that at all. They are like straw that the wind blows away.

Cross References

Job 21:18

How often are they like straw blowing in the wind? How often are they like tumbleweeds swept away by a storm?

Job 8:13

The same thing happens to everyone who forgets God. The hope of ungodly people dies out.

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like straw blowing in the wind, while the angel of the Lord drives them away.

Psalm 37:36

But he soon passed away and was gone. Even though I looked for him, I couldn’t find him.

Isaiah 17:13

They sound like the roar of rushing waters. But when the Lord speaks out against them, they run far away. The wind blows them away like straw on the hills. A strong wind drives them along like tumbleweeds.

Isaiah 29:5

Jerusalem, all your enemies will become like fine dust. Their terrifying armies will become like straw that the wind blows away. All of a sudden, in an instant,

Jeremiah 13:24

The Lord says, “I will scatter you like straw that the desert wind blows away.

Hosea 13:3

So these people will vanish like the morning mist. They will soon disappear like the early dew. They will be like straw that the wind blows around on a threshing floor. They will be like smoke that escapes through a window.

Matthew 3:12

His pitchfork is in his hand to clear the straw from his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the storeroom. But he will burn up the husks with fire that can’t be put out.”