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Psalm 83:13–15

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13O my God, make them like fwhirling dust,1

like gchaff before the wind.

14As hfire consumes the forest,

as the flame isets the mountains ablaze,

15so may you pursue them jwith your tempest

and terrify them with your hurricane!

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Footnotes

  1. 1Or like a tumbleweed

Cross references

  1. fIsa. 17:13
  2. gJob 13:25; 21:18; [Ps. 1:4]
  3. h[Isa. 9:18]; See Isa. 10:16–19
  4. iDeut. 32:22
  5. jJob 9:17

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like chaff before the wind.

As fire consumes the forest

or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

so pursue them with your tempest

and terrify them with your storm.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like straw before the wind.

As fire burns a forest,

as a flame blazes through mountains,

so pursue them with your tempest

and terrify them with your storm.

NLTNew Living Translation

O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,

like chaff before the wind!

As a fire burns a forest

and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

chase them with your fierce storm;

terrify them with your tempest.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

O my God, make them like the tumbleweed,

like the chaff before wind.

As fire burns a forest,

and as a flame sets afire mountains,

so pursue them with your tempest

and terrify them with your storm.

KJV 1900King James Version

O my God, make them like a wheel;

As the stubble before the wind.

As the fire burneth a wood,

And as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

So persecute them with thy tempest,

And make them afraid with thy storm.