Psalms 35:5

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May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the LORD’s angel attacks them!

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  • Job 21:18 : 18 How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.
  • Exod 14:19 : 19 The angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 The LORD’s angel went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  • Heb 11:28 : 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
  • Ps 83:13-17 : 13 O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind! 14 Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, 15 chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm. 16 Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD. 17 May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!

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  • 6May their path be dark and slippery, as the LORD’s angel chases them!

  • 18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • 4May those who seek my life be embarrassed and humiliated! May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

  • Ps 83:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.

    16Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD.

    17May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!

  • 13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!

  • 3Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

  • 13Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.

  • 17I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them.”

  • 7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

  • Ps 40:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

    15May those who say to me,“Aha! Aha!” be humiliated and disgraced!

  • 6May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,

  • 16You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

  • 18May those who persecute me be disgraced. Do not let me be disgraced. May they be dismayed. Do not let me be dismayed. Bring days of disaster on them. Bring on them the destruction they deserve.”

  • 15Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

  • Ps 68:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1For the music director; by David, a psalm, a song. God springs into action! His enemies scatter; his adversaries run from him.

    2As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

  • 66Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the LORD’s heaven.

  • 15May the LORD be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!

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    4Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

  • 2May those who are trying to take my life be embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

  • 6Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!

  • 24Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 24“The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.

  • 5But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.

  • 11You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

  • 19ק(Qof) Those who pursued us were swifter than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

  • 10May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

  • 42I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.

  • Ps 69:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

    25May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

  • 9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

  • 13The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The LORD has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”

  • 5They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.

  • Ps 35:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25Do not let them say to themselves,“Aha! We have what we wanted!” Do not let them say,“We have devoured him!”

    26May those who rejoice in my troubles be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation!

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    5may an enemy relentlessly chase me and catch me; may he trample me to death and leave me lying dishonored in the dust.(Selah)

  • 36“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

  • 15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • 2before God’s decree becomes reality and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff, before the LORD’s raging anger overtakes you– before the day of the LORD’s angry judgment overtakes you!

  • 25Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

  • 10Condemn them, O God! May their own schemes be their downfall! Drive them away because of their many acts of insurrection, for they have rebelled against you.

  • 5They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–

  • 9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

  • 8Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

  • 3Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness– for nothing escapes them!

  • 12They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.

  • 11But the LORD is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten.