Psalms 83:13
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
American King James Version (AKJV)
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
American Standard Version (ASV)
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
Webster's Revision
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
World English Bible
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
English Revised Version (ERV)
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.
Clarke's Psalms 83:13 Bible Commentary
O may God, make them like a wheel - Alluding to the manner of threshing corn in the east. A large broad wheel was rolled over the grain on a threshing-floor, which was generally in the open air; and the grain being thrown up by a shovel against the wind the chaff was thus separated from it, in the place where it was threshed.
Barnes's Psalms 83:13 Bible Commentary
O my God, make them like a wheel ... - Or rather, like a rolling thing - something that the wind rolls along. The word גלגל galgal - means properly a wheel, as of a chariot, Ezekiel 10:2, Ezekiel 10:6; or a wheel for drawing water from a well, Ecclesiastes 12:6; then, a whirlwind, Psalm 77:19; and then, anything driven before a whirlwind, as chaff, or stubble, Isaiah 17:13. Compare the notes at Isaiah 22:18. The prayer here is, that they might be utterly destroyed, or driven away.
Wesley's Psalms 83:13 Bible Commentary
83:13 A wheel - Whereas they promise to themselves a sure possession, let them be like a wheel, which is very unstable, and soon removed.