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Psalms 83:13
Psalms 83:13 is verse 13 of Psalms chapter 83, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
King James Version
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.
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Psalms 83:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
13 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
Psalms 44:4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
Psalms 74:11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
Psalms 74:12Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
Isaiah 17:12Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
Isaiah 17:13The 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 17:14In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.
Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
Psalms 68:1God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.
Psalms 68:2As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
Exodus 15:7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Isaiah 40:24No 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.
Isaiah 41:2Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness ? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
Jeremiah 13:24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”