They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away.
Psalm 1:4 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 Not so the unjust: but as the chaff which the wind shall drive away. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The ungodly are not so: But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Not so the wicked [those disobedient and living without God are not so]. But they are like the chaff [worthless, dead, without substance] which the wind drives away. American Standard Version (1901) The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Common English Bible That’s not true for the wicked! They are like dust that the wind blows away. Catholic Public Domain Version Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth. |
They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away.
So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish.
They shall be as chaff before the wind: and the messenger of Jehovah overthrowing.
And he shall pass away, and behold, he is not: and I shall seek him and he was not found.
To the nations as the tumult of many waters they shall rage, and he rebuked him and he fled from far off and was pursued as the chief of the mountains before the wind and as stubble before the whirlwind.
And the multitude of thy strangers was as the thin dust, and Its the chaff passing away, the multitude of the terrible ones: and it was at a moment suddenly.
And I will scatter them as the straw passing away by the wind of the desert.
For this they shall be as the cloud of the morning, and as the early dew going way; as the chaff will be driven from the threshing-floor on the wind, and as the smoke from the chimney.
Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and gather his wheat into the store; but he will burn down the chaff in inextinguishable fire.