so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
Parallel translations
- KJV So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
- BSB so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
- ESV so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
- NKJV So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.
- NASB So pursue them with Your heavy gale, And terrify them with Your storm.
- NLT chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.
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- Job 9:17For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- Ps 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
- Ps 58:9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
- Isa 28:17I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
- Matt 7:27The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell — and great was its fall.”
- Job 27:20–23Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
- Heb 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
- Ps 11:6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
- Ezek 13:11–14Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it.
- Isa 30:30Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
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