Verse 13

O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:18 : 18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
  • Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.
  • Jer 13:24 : 24 So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
  • Isa 41:2 : 2 Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.
  • Exod 15:7 : 7 When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.
  • Ps 22:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
  • Ps 44:4 : 4 You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob.
  • Ps 68:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. A Song.> Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him. 2 Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
  • Ps 74:11-12 : 11 Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe? 12 For from the past God is my King, working salvation in the earth.
  • Isa 17:12-14 : 12 Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters! 13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm. 14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.