13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.

Other Translations of Psalm 83:13

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

13 O my God, make them like whirling dust,Or like a tumbleweed like chaff before the wind.

The Message

13 My God! I've had it with them! Blow them away! Tumbleweeds in the desert waste,

New King James Version

13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!

New Living Translation

13 O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 83:13

Commentary on Psalm 83:9-18

(Read Psalm 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 will bring them to seek thy name. We should desire no confusion to our enemies and persecutors but what may forward their conversion. The stormy tempest of Divine vengeance will overtake them, unless they repent and seek the pardoning mercy of their offended Lord. God's triumphs over his enemies, clearly prove that he is, according to his name JEHOVAH, an almighty Being, who has all power and perfection in himself. May we fear his wrath, and yield ourselves to be his willing servants. And let us seek deliverance by the destruction of our fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.