Psalms 83:13
O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
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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?
- Ps 35:5 : 5 May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the LORD’s angel attacks them!
- Job 13:25 : 25 Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?
- Isa 40:24 : 24 Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.
- Jer 13:24 : 24 “The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.
- Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”
- Isa 41:2 : 2 Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.
- Exod 15:7 : 7 In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
- Ps 22:1 : 1 For the music director; according to the tune“Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.
- Ps 44:4 : 4 You are my king, O God! Decree Jacob’s deliverance!
- Ps 68:1-2 : 1 For the music director; by David, a psalm, a song. God springs into action! His enemies scatter; his adversaries run from him. 2 As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.
- Ps 74:11-12 : 11 Why do you remain inactive? Intervene and destroy him! 12 But God has been my king from ancient times, performing acts of deliverance on the earth.
- Isa 17:12-14 : 12 Beware, you many nations massing together, those who make a commotion as loud as the roaring of the sea’s waves. Beware, you people making such an uproar, those who make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves. 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. 14 In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!
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18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
- Ps 83:14-174 verses80%
14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,
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!
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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.
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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.
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24“The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.
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9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
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5May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the LORD’s angel attacks them!
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42I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.
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6May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,
- Ps 83:11-122 verses72%
11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12who said,“Let’s take over the pastures of God!”
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24Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.
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10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
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25Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?
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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.
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11You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.
12The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.
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14Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.
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9Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
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16So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.
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.”
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43I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.
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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.
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18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.
19How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
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13The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The LORD has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”
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28Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are prepared. The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.
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7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!
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27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.
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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.
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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.
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24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!
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9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.
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11They sweep by like the wind and pass on. But the one who considers himself a god will be held guilty.”
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11“At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be told,‘A scorching wind will sweep down from the hilltops in the wilderness on my dear people. It will not be a gentle breeze for winnowing the grain and blowing away the chaff.
12No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’
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26Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.
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8They say to themselves,“We will oppress all of them.” They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land.
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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.
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16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.
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7In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
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7The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.
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23Just watch! The wrath of the LORD will come like a storm. Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.
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26A wise king separates out the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them.
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18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.
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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.
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13Angrily wipe them out! Wipe them out so they vanish! Let them know that God rules in Jacob and to the ends of the earth!(Selah)