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ULT My God, make them like the whirling dust,
 ⇔ like chaff before the wind,

UST My God, cause them to disappear quickly like whirling dust,
⇔ like chaff that the wind blows away!

BSB  ⇔ Make them like tumbleweed, O my God,
⇔ like chaff before the wind.

OEB  ⇔ Whirl them, my God, like dust,
⇔ like stubble before the wind.

WEB My God, make them like tumbleweed,
⇔ like chaff before the wind.

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

LSV O my God, make them as a rolling thing,
As stubble before wind.

FBV My God, make them like whirling tumbleweeds, chaff blown away by the wind.

T4T  ⇔ My God, cause them to disappear quickly like whirling dust,
⇔ like chaff that the wind blows away!

LEB • like the chaff before wind.

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

MOF My God, whirl them away like dust,
⇔ like straw before the wind;

JPS (83-14) O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.

ASV O my God, make them like the whirling dust;
 ⇔ As stubble before the wind.

DRA He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

YLT O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

DBY O my [fn]God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.

83.13 Elohim

RV O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.

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

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

BB O my Lorde, make them lyke vnto a wheele: and as chaffe before the winde.
(O my Lord, make them like unto a wheele: and as chaffe before the winde.)

GNV O my God, make them like vnto a wheele, and as the stubble before the winde.
(O my God, make them like unto a wheele, and as the stubble before the winde. )

CB O my God, make them like vnto a whele, and as the stuble before the wynde.
(O my God, make them like unto a whele, and as the stuble before the wynde.)

WYC He schal not depriue hem fro goodis, that gon in innocence; Lord of vertues, blessid is the man, that hopith in thee.
(He shall not depriue them from goods, that gon in innocence; Lord of virtuees, blessid is the man, that hopith in thee.)

LUT die da sagen: Wir wollen die Häuser Gottes einnehmen.
(die there say: Wir wollen the Häuser God’s einnehmen.)

CLV Non privabit bonis eos qui ambulant in innocentia: Domine virtutum, beatus homo qui sperat in te.][fn]
(Non privabit bonis them who ambulant in innocentia: Domine virtutum, beatus human who sperat in you(sg).])

83.13 Domine virtutum, beatus homo qui sperat, etc. Qui tanta facis, quæ dici non possunt.

83.13 Domine virtutum, beatus human who sperat, etc. Who tanta facis, which dici not/no possunt.

BRN O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee.

BrLXX Κύριε τῶν δυνάμεων, μακάριος ἄνθρωπος ὁ ἐλπίζων ἐπὶ σέ.
(Kurie tōn dunameōn, makarios anthrōpos ho elpizōn epi se. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

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(Some words not found in UHB: which/who said take_~_possession to/for=ourselves DOM pastures ʼₑlhīmv )

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The writer uses similes to describe God’s total destruction of Israel’s enemies.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

make them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the wind

(Some words not found in UHB: which/who said take_~_possession to/for=ourselves DOM pastures ʼₑlhīmv )

Both statements speak of God destroying his enemies as if he were a strong wind easily blowing them away. (See also: figs-parallelism)

Parallel PSA 83:13

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