KJV King James Version
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them].
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Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them].
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
WEB World English Bible
Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.
ASV American Standard Version
Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving them on.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.
Surrounding context — Psalm 35
2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
3 Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation.
4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them].
6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
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Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.Isaiah 29:5Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.Isaiah 17:13The 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.Psalm 1:4The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.Hebrews 11:28Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.Exodus 14:19And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.Acts 12:23And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.Psalm 83:13-17O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
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