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Psalm 83:13 KJV
Psalms · chapter 83 · verse 13
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.Psalm 83:13 · King James Version
Psalm 83:13 in context
11Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- stubbleqashstrawH7179 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- wheelgalgala wheelH1534 →
- makeshîythto placeH7896 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-18