Psalm 35:5

New International Reader's Version

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

Psalm 1:4

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

Psalm 90:9

You have been angry with us all of our days. We groan as we come to the end of our lives.

Exodus 14:19

The angel of God had been traveling in front of Israel’s army. Now he moved back and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved away from in front of them. Now it stood behind them.

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,

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went into the camp of the Assyrians. He put to death 185,000 soldiers there. The people of Jerusalem got up the next morning. They looked out and saw all the dead bodies.

Lamentations 3:66

Lord, get angry with them and hunt them down. Wipe them off the face of the earth.

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.

Acts 12:23

Right away an angel of the Lord struck Herod down. Herod had not given praise to God. So he was eaten by worms and died.

Hebrews 11:28

Because of his faith, Moses was the first to keep the Passover Feast. He commanded the people of Israel to sprinkle blood on their doorways. He did it so that the destroying angel would not touch their oldest sons.