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13O my God, make{H8798)} them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Psalms 83:13

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

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

  • Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

  • Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

  • Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. …

Commentary

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

(vv. 9-18)

The psalmist here, in the name of the church, prays for the destruction of those confederate forces, and, in God’s name, foretels it; for this prayer that it might be so amounts to a prophecy that it shall be so, and this prophecy reaches to all the enemies of the gospel-church; whoever they be that oppose the kingdom of Christ, here they may read their doom. The prayer is, in short, that these en…

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