Psalms 35:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

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  • Job 21:18 : 18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
  • Exod 14:19 : 19 Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back:
  • Isa 17:13 : 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.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.
  • Heb 11:28 : 28 By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.
  • Ps 83:13-17 : 13 O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind. 14 As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains, 15 So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm. 16 Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord. 17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

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  • 6 Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

  • 18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • 4 Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.

  • Ps 83:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15 So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.

    16 Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.

    17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

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

  • 3 So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

  • 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.

  • 17 I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

  • 7 Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

  • Ps 40:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

    15 Let those who say to me, Aha, aha! be surprised because of their shame.

  • 6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

  • 16 You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

  • 18 Let them be put to shame who are attacking me, but let me not be shamed; let them be overcome with fear, but let me not be overcome: send on them the day of evil, and put them to destruction twice over.

  • 15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

  • Ps 68:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • 66 You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.

  • 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

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    4 The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

  • 2 Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

  • 6 With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.

  • 24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 24 So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land.

  • 5 And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

  • 11 Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

  • 19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

  • 10 Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

  • 42 Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

  • Ps 69:24-25
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    24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

    25 Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.

  • 9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

  • 13 And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.

  • 5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

  • Ps 35:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

    26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

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    5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

  • 36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

  • 15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • 2 Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you.

  • 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?

  • 10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • 5 They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

  • 9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

  • 8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • 3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

  • 12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

  • 11 But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.