The wicked are not so. For they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Psalm 92:9 - Tree of Life Version But You, Adonai, are exalted forever. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For behold, Your adversaries, O Lord, for behold, Your enemies shall perish; all the evildoers shall be scattered. American Standard Version (1901) For, lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, thine enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. Common English Bible Look at your enemies, LORD! Look at how your enemies die, how all evildoers are scattered abroad! |
The wicked are not so. For they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
But You, Adonai, sit enthroned forever. Your renown is from generation to generation.
I say, “My God, do not take me up in the middle of my days. Your years endure through all generations!
For the wicked will perish, and the enemies of Adonai will be like the beauty of the fields— they will vanish—vanish like smoke.
My God in His lovingkindness will go before me. God will let me look down on my foes.
For behold, those far from You will perish. You put an end to all who like a harlot are unfaithful to You.
You rule over the swelling of the sea. When its waves mount up, You still them.
For You, Adonai, are Elyon above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.
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.
A third of you will die with the plague and will be consumed with famine in your midst. A third will fall by the sword all around you. A third I will scatter to all the winds, and draw out a sword after them.
I will scatter you among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you. So your land will become a desolation and your cities will become a waste.
Whenever the Ark would set out, Moses would say: “Arise, Adonai! May Your enemies be scattered! May those who hate You flee from before You!”
Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Get away from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’”
But those hostile to me, who didn’t want me to reign over them, bring them here and execute them before me.’”
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
“Adonai will scatter you among all peoples from the one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—wood and stone—that you and your fathers have not known.
So let all Your enemies perish, Adonai! But may those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.” Then the land had peace for 40 years.