Psalms 83:13

NETBible

O my God, make them like dead thistles, 1  like dead weeds blown away by 2  the wind!

NIV ©

Make them like tumble-weed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

NASB ©

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

NLT ©

O my God, blow them away like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind!

MSG ©

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

BBE ©

O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.

NRSV ©

O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

NKJV ©

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

KJV
O my God
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make
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them like a wheel
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as the stubble
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before
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the wind
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NASB ©
O my God
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, make
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them like the whirling
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dust
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, Like chaff
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before
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the wind
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.
LXXM
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T-NSM
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N-NSM
mou
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P-GS
you
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V-AMD-2S
autouv
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D-APM
wv
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CONJ
trocon
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N-ASM
wv
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CONJ
kalamhn
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N-ASF
kata
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PREP
proswpon
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N-ASN
anemou
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N-GSM
NET [draft] ITL
O my God
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, make
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them like dead thistles
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, like dead weeds
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blown away by
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the wind
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!
HEBREW
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ynpl
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sqk
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lglgk
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wmtys
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(83:13)
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NETBible

O my God, make them like dead thistles, 1  like dead weeds blown away by 2  the wind!

NET Notes

1 tn Or “tumbleweed.” The Hebrew noun גַּלְגַּל (galgal) refers to a “wheel” or, metaphorically, to a whirling wind (see Ps 77:18). If taken in the latter sense here, one could understand the term as a metonymical reference to dust blown by a whirlwind (cf. NRSV “like whirling dust”). However, HALOT 190 s.v. II גַּלְגַּל understands the noun as a homonym referring to a “dead thistle” here and in Isa 17:13. The parallel line, which refers to קַשׁ (qash, “chaff”), favors this interpretation.

2 tn Heb “before.”