Psalms 83 · Verse 13

Psalms 83:13

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Psalms 83:13, King James Version

Psalms 83:13 in other translations

BSBMake them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
WEBMy God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
ASVO my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.
YLTO my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.
DARBYO my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
BBEO my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
WebsterO my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

What does Psalms 83:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. like a wheel--or, whirling of any light thing (Is 17:13), as stubble or chaff (Psa 1:4).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 O may God, make them like a wheel - Alluding to the manner of threshing corn in the east. A large broad wheel was rolled over the grain on a threshing-floor, which was generally in the open air; and the grain being thrown up by a shovel against the wind the chaff was thus separated from it, in the place where it was threshed.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 83:9-18

All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their enemies like a wheel; unsettled in all their counsels and resolves. Not only let them be driven away as stubble, but burnt as stubble. And this will be the end of wicked men. Let them be made to fear thy name, and perhaps that…

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Psalms 83:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֱֽלֹהַ֗י'elo.HaiO God myH430
שִׁיתֵ֥מוֹshi.Te.movmake themH7896
כַגַּלְגַּ֑לkha.gal.Gallike <the> whirling dustH1534
כְּ֝קַ֗שׁke.Kashlike chaffH7179
לִפְנֵי\־lif.nei-<to> beforeH6440
רֽוּחַ\׃Ru.acha windH7307

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Cross references for Psalms 83:13

  • Job 21:18

    They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  • Psalms 35:5

    Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.

  • Isaiah 40:24

    Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

  • Psalms 74:11-12

    Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

  • Isaiah 17:12-14

    Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • Job 13:25

    Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

  • Jeremiah 13:24

    Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

  • Psalms 44:4

    Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

  • Matthew 3:12

    Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

  • Isaiah 41:2

    Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

  • Psalms 68:1-2

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

  • Exodus 15:7

    And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
O my.
22:1; 44:4; 74:11,12
like.
Isa 17:12-14
as the.
35:5; 68:1,2; Ex 15:7; Job 13:25; 21:18; Isa 40:24; 41:2; Jer 13:24
Mt 3:12

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Context

  • Psalms 83:12

    Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

  • Psalms 83:13

    O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

  • Psalms 83:14

    As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

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Psalms 83:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Dios mío, ponlos como á torbellinos; como á hojarascas delante del viento.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car ils ont dit: Prenons possession des habitations de Dieu.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Mein Gott, mache sie gleich einem Staubwirbel, gleich Stoppeln vor dem Winde!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Non privabit bonis eos qui ambulant in innocentia: Domine virtutum, beatus homo qui sperat in te.