Psalms 83:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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?
  • 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.

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

  • Ps 83:14-17
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    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;

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Ps 83:11-12
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    11 Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:

    12 Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.

  • 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.

  • 10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    71%

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

    12 And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

  • 14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

  • 9 Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:

  • Jer 18:16-17
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    16 Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

    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.

  • 43 Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

  • 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 73:18-19
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    18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

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

  • 28 Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

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

  • 27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

  • 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.

  • 11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.

  • Jer 4:11-12
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    69%

    11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;

    12 A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.

  • 26 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

  • 8 They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the 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.

  • 16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • 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.

  • 7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

  • 23 See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.

  • 26 A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

  • 18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

  • 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.

  • 13 Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)