Psalms 35:5
Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
In Context
6Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.
Cross References
Job 21:18They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
Psalms 83:13O my God, make them like vnto a wheele, and as the stubble before the winde.
Isaiah 17:13The people shall make a sounde like the noise of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling thing before the whirlewinde.
Isaiah 37:36Then the Angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the campe of Asshur an hundreth, fourescore, and fiue thousand: so when they arose early in the morning, beholde, they were all dead corpses.
Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall bee as the morning cloude, and as the morning dewe that passeth away, as the chaffe that is driuen with a whirlewind out of the floore, and as the smoke that goeth out of the chimney.
Hebrews 11:28Through faith he ordeined the Passeouer and the effusion of blood, least he that destroyed the first borne, should touche them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 35:2-11
Prayer for Divine Protection. 1 Plead my cause, O Lord , with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase… Read the whole commentary →