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Psalms 35:5

(34-5) Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (Holy Trinity);   Angel (a Spirit);   Chaff;   Enemy;   Panic;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Angels;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Archangel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels (2);   Chaff;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chaff;   Wind;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;   Chaff;   Darkness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let them be like chaff in the wind,with the angel of the Lord driving them away.
Hebrew Names Version
Let them be as chaff before the wind, The angel of the LORD driving them on.
King James Version
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.
English Standard Version
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
New Century Version
Make them like chaff blown by the wind as the angel of the Lord forces them away.
New English Translation
May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the Lord 's angel attacks them!
Amplified Bible
Let them be [blown away] like chaff before the wind [worthless, without substance], With the angel of the LORD driving them on.
New American Standard Bible
Let them be like chaff before the wind, With the angel of the LORD driving them on.
World English Bible
Let them be as chaff before the wind, The angel of Yahweh driving them on.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let them be like chaff before the wind,With the angel of Yahweh driving them on.
Berean Standard Bible
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
Contemporary English Version
Send your angel after them and let them be like straw in the wind.
Complete Jewish Bible
May they be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Adonai to drive them on.
Darby Translation
Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive [them] away;
Easy-to-Read Version
Make them like chaff blown by the wind. Let them be chased by the Lord 's angel.
George Lamsa Translation
Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Good News Translation
May they be like straw blown by the wind as the angel of the Lord pursues them!
Lexham English Bible
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Yahweh driving them.
Literal Translation
Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the Angel of Jehovah driving away.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let the be as ye dust before the wynde, and the angell of the LORDE scaterynge the.
American Standard Version
Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving them on.
Bible in Basic English
Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let them be as chaff before the wind, the angel of the LORD thrusting them.
King James Version (1611)
Let them be as chaffe before the wind: and let the Angel of the Lord chase them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let them be as dust before the winde: and let the angell of God scatter [them.]
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.
English Revised Version
Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the angel of the LORD driving them on.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be thei maad as dust bifor the face of the wynd; and the aungel of the Lord make hem streit.
Update Bible Version
Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Yahweh driving [them] on.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them].
New King James Version
Let them be like chaff before the wind,And let the angel [fn] of the Lord chase them.
New Living Translation
Blow them away like chaff in the wind— a wind sent by the angel of the Lord .
New Life Bible
Let them be like straw in the wind. May the angel of the Lord drive them away.
New Revised Standard
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them on.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let them be as chaff before the wind, with, the messenger of Yahweh, pressing them on:
Revised Standard Version
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them on!
Young's Literal Translation
They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let them be like chaff before the wind, With the angel of the Lord driving them on.

Contextual Overview

1 (34-1) <For David himself.> Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me. 2 (34-2) Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me. 3 (34-3) Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation. 4 (34-4) Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me. 5 (34-5) Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them. 6 (34-6) Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them. 7 (34-7) For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul. 8 (34-8) Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall. 9 (34-9) But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and shall be delighted in his salvation. 10 (34-10) All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as chaff: Psalms 1:4, Psalms 83:13-17, Job 21:18, Isaiah 17:13, Isaiah 29:5, Hosea 13:3

and: Exodus 14:19, Isaiah 37:36, Acts 12:23, Hebrews 11:28

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:43 - as small 2 Kings 19:35 - the angel 2 Chronicles 20:22 - to sing and to Psalms 18:37 - General Matthew 3:12 - but Luke 5:21 - Who can

Cross-References

Genesis 34:30
And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.
Genesis 35:9
And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,
Genesis 35:11
And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
Genesis 35:15
And calling the name of that place Bethel.
Genesis 35:16
And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,
Exodus 23:27
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee:
Exodus 34:24
For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God thrice in a year.
Deuteronomy 11:25
None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he hath spoken to you.
Joshua 5:1
Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.par
1 Samuel 11:7
And taking both the oxen, he cut them in pieces, and sent them into all the coasts of Israel, by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall not come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell upon the people, and they went out as one man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let them be as chaff before the wind,.... As they are; see Psalms 1:4;

and let the angel of the Lord chase [them]; either a good angel, who is the Lord's, his creature that ministers unto him, and is ready to obey his orders; and who, as he encamps about the saints and protects them, so he is able to destroy their enemies; as one angel in a night destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt, and another the whole army of the Assyrians, Exodus 12:29; an angel of the Lord, who is swift to fly, and so to chase and overtake, and able to execute whatever is the will of the Lord; or else an evil angel, who is the Lord's, being made by him, though not made evil by him; and who is under his restraints, and can do nothing but by his permission; and who sometimes is employed by the Lord, as the executioner of his wrath upon wicked men; is suffered to distress and torture their consciences in this life, and hereafter drag them into everlasting burnings, prepared for the devil and his angels.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let them be as chaff before the wind - As chaff is driven away in winnowing grain. See the notes at Psalms 1:4.

And let the angel of the Lord chase them - Drive them away, or scatter them. Angels are often represented in the Scriptures as agents employed by God in bringing punishment on wicked people. See 2 Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37:36; 1Ch 21:12, 1 Chronicles 21:30; 2 Samuel 24:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 35:5. Let the angel of the Lord chase them.] By angel we may either understand one of those spirits, whether good or bad, commonly thus denominated, or any thing used by God himself as the instrument of their confusion.


 
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