Psalms 35:5

In 11 translations

BSB

May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

KJV

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

WEB

Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

ASV

Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving them on.

LSV

They are as chaff before wind, || And a messenger of YHWH driving away.

YLT

They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

DBY

Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive [them] away;

DRC34:5

Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

GNV

Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them.

JPS

Let them be as chaff before the wind, the angel of the LORD thrusting them.

LXXE34:5

Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.

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WLC

יִֽהְי֗וּ כְּמֹ֥ץ לִפְנֵי־ר֑וּחַ וּמַלְאַ֖ךְ יְהוָ֣ה דּוֹחֶֽה׃

LXX-Br34:5

Γενηθήτωσαν ὡσεὶ χοῦς κατὰ πρόσωπον ἀνέμου, καὶ ἄγγελος Κυρίου ἐκθλίβων αὐτούς.

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• Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
• Isaiah 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
• Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
• Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
• Hebrews 11:28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
• Exodus 14:19And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
• Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
• Psalms 83:13–17Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind. As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze, so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm. Cover their faces…

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