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Psalms 83:13

Psalms 83:13
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

O my God, make them like a wheel,.... Which, as the Targum adds, is rolled, and goes on, and rests not in a declivity; let them be as fickle and inconstant as a wheel; being in high, let them be in…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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, Eze 10:2, Eze 10:6; or a…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 83:9-18

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Psalms 83:13-18

Renewed prayer for the dispersion and destruction of the enemy expressed by figures from nature. The final end and object of all is that they may acknowledge Jehovah to be supreme.