Psalms 35:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Psalms 35:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Isaiah 29:5
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Psalms 1:4
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Hebrews 11:28
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Topics

Agriculture Angel (a Spirit)Angel (holy Trinity)Chaff Enemy Forgiveness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

In these verses we have, I. David’s representation of his case to God, setting forth the restless rage and malice of his persecutors. He was God’s servant, expressly appointed by him to be what he was, followed his guidance, and aimed at his glory in the way of duty, had lived (as St. Paul speaks) in all good conscience before God unto this day; and yet there were those that strove with him, that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5-6. (Compare Psa 1:4)--a terrible fate; driven by wind on a slippery path in darkness, and hotly pursued by supernatural violence (2Sa 24:16; Ac 12:23).