How often are they like straw before the wind; like chaff swept away by a storm?
Psalm 1:4 - Tree of Life Version The wicked are not so. For they are like chaff that the wind blows 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. |
How often are they like straw before the wind; like chaff swept away by a storm?
Such are the ways of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes—
May they be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Adonai driving them off.
But once he passed by, he was no more. Though I looked for him, he could not be found.
The nations will rush in like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them so they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the hills before the wind, like whirling dust before the storm.
Yet the multitude of your foes will become like fine dust, and the multitude of the terrifying like chaff that passes away. It will happen in an instant, suddenly.
“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw in the desert wind.
Therefore they will be like morning clouds, like dew passing away early, like chaff blown from the threshing-floor, or like smoke from a chimney.
His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He shall burn up with inextinguishable fire.”