King James Version
Psalms 35:5 in the King James Version says “Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 35 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.”
Psalms 35:5 · KJV
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
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.
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. dark: Heb. darkness and slipperiness
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“Let them be as chaff”
H4671chaff (as pressed out, i.e., winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“the wind”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“and let the angel”
H4397a messenger; specifically, of god, i.e., an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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