Psalm 83:13
New International Version
Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.

New Living Translation
O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!

English Standard Version
O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

Berean Standard Bible
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

King James Bible
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

New King James Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!

New American Standard Bible
My God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

NASB 1995
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

NASB 1977
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; Like chaff before the wind.

Legacy Standard Bible
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

Amplified Bible
O my God, make them like whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].

Christian Standard Bible
Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.

American Standard Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
God, make them like a tumble weed and like a straw before the wind,

Brenton Septuagint Translation
O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.

Contemporary English Version
Our God, scatter them around like dust in a whirlwind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

English Revised Version
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
O my God, blow them away like tumbleweeds, like husks in the wind.

Good News Translation
Scatter them like dust, O God, like straw blown away by the wind.

International Standard Version
God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.

JPS Tanakh 1917
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.

Literal Standard Version
O my God, make them as a rolling thing, | As stubble before wind.

Majority Standard Bible
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

New American Bible
My God, make them like tumbleweed, into chaff flying before the wind.

NET Bible
O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!

New Revised Standard Version
O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

New Heart English Bible
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

Webster's Bible Translation
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

World English Bible
My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

Young's Literal Translation
O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Do Not Be Still, O God
12who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.” 13Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind. 14As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,…

Cross References
Job 21:18
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Psalm 18:42
I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

Psalm 35:5
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

Isaiah 17:13
The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Isaiah 40:24
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Jeremiah 13:24
"I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.


Treasury of Scripture

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

O my

Psalm 22:1
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

Psalm 44:4
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

Psalm 74:11,12
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom…

like

Isaiah 17:12-14
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! …

as the

Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Psalm 68:1,2
To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him…

Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

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Psalm 83
1. A complaint to God of the enemies conspiracies
9. A prayer against those who oppress the Church














(13) A wheel.--Heb., galgal. (See Note, Psalm 77:18, and comp. Isaiah 17:13, where the Authorised Ver sion has literally rolling thing, the margin "thistle down," and the LXX., "dust of a wheel.") Sir G. Grove (Smith's Bibl. Dict., art. Oreb) says, "like the spherical masses of dry weeds which course over the plains of Esdraelon and Philistia." He possibly refers to the wild artichoke, which struck Mr. Thomson so forcibly as the origin of the psalmist's figure. He describes them as vegetable globes, light as a feather, which, when the parent stem breaks, become the sport of the wind. "At the proper season thousands of them come suddenly over the plain, rolling, leaping, bounding with vast racket, to the dismay both of the horse and rider." To this day the Arabs, who call it 'akh-b, employ it in the same figurative way:--

"May you be whirled like 'akh-b before the wind!"

THOMSON: Land and Book, 563.

Verse 13. - O my God, make them like a wheel; rather, like whirling dust - the dust that is caught up by an eddy of wind, and twisted round and round (see Isaiah 17:13). As the stubble before the wind. Both the "whirling dust" and the "stubble" are images of what is lightest, most shifting, and of least account (see Job 13:25; Job 15:7; Job 21:18; Job 41:29; Isaiah 40:24; Isaiah 41:2; Jeremiah 13:24; Malachi 4:1).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Make
שִׁיתֵ֥מוֹ (šî·ṯê·mōw)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 7896: To put, set

them like tumbleweed,
כַגַּלְגַּ֑ל (ḵag·gal·gal)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1534: A wheel, a whirlwind, dust

O my God,
אֱ‍ֽלֹהַ֗י (’ĕlō·hay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

like chaff
כְּ֝קַ֗שׁ (kə·qaš)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7179: Stubble, chaff

before
לִפְנֵי־ (lip̄·nê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the wind.
רֽוּחַ׃ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit


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