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Psalm 83:13

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83:13O my God, make them like dead thistles,23

like dead weeds blown away by24 the wind!

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Footnotes

  1. 23 Or “tumbleweed.” The Hebrew noun גַּלְגַּל (galgal) refers to a “wheel” or, metaphorically, to a whirling wind (see Ps 77:18). If taken in the latter sense here, one could understand the term as a metonymical reference to dust blown by a whirlwind (cf. “like whirling dust”). However, II גַּלְגַּל understands the noun as a homonym referring to a “dead thistle” here and in Isa 17:13. The parallel line, which refers to קַשׁ (qash, “chaff”), favors this interpretation.
  2. 24 Heb “before.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

O my God, make them like whirling dust,

like chaff before the wind.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like chaff before the wind.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like straw before the wind.

NLTNew Living Translation

O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,

like chaff before the wind!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

O my God, make them like the tumbleweed,

like the chaff before wind.

KJV 1900King James Version

O my God, make them like a wheel;

As the stubble before the wind.