Psalm 35:5 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Let them be like husks blown by the wind as the Messenger of the LORD chases them.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving them on.

BBE:

Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

DBY:

Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive them away;

ERV:

Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the angel of the LORD driving them on.

JPS:

Let them be as chaff before the wind, the angel of the LORD thrusting them.

WBS:

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

WEB:

Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.

YLT:

They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

Psalm 35:5 Cross References

XREF:

Job 21:18 "Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?

Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

Isaiah 29:5 But the multitude of your enemies will become like fine dust, And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away; And it will happen instantly, suddenly. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD {d} chase [them].
(d) Smite them with the spirit of giddiness that their enterprises may be foolish, and they received just reward.

MHC:

35:1-10 It is no new thing for the most righteous men, and the most righteous cause, to meet with enemies. This is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed of the serpent against the Seed of the woman. David in his afflictions, Christ in his sufferings, the church under persecution, and the Christian in the hour temptation, all beseech the Almighty to appear in their behalf, and to vindicate their cause. We are apt to justify uneasiness at the injuries men do us, by our never having given them cause to use us so ill; but this should make us easy, for then we may the more expect that God will plead our cause. David prayed to God to manifest himself in his trial. Let me have inward comfort under all outward troubles, to support my soul. If God, by his Spirit, witness to our spirits that he is our salvation, we need desire no more to make us happy. If God is our Friend, no matter who is our enemy. By the Spirit of prophecy, David foretells the just judgments of God that would come upon his enemies for their great wickedness. These are predictions, they look forward, and show the doom of the enemies of Christ and his kingdom. We must not desire or pray for the ruin of any enemies, except our lusts and the evil spirits that would compass our destruction. A traveller benighted in a bad road, is an expressive emblem of a sinner walking in the slippery and dangerous ways of temptation. But David having committed his cause to God, did not doubt of his own deliverance. The bones are the strongest parts of the body. The psalmist here proposes to serve and glorify God with all his strength. If such language may be applied to outward salvation, how much more will it apply to heavenly things in Christ Jesus!

CONC:

Angel Chaff Chase Drive Driving Dust Flight Grain Messenger Thrusting Wind

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