so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
Parallel translations
- WEB so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
- KJV So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
- 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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Quick answer
The psalmist asks God to pursue and terrify the enemies with His tempest and storm. He prays God's overwhelming might would overtake them.
Overview
Continuing the storm imagery, the prayer asks God to chase down the foes with the terror of His judgment. The God who commands wind and storm can rout any army. Such language is not personal vindictiveness but a plea for God to defend His name and people against those bent on their destruction.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Ps 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
- Isa 28:17I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
- Ps 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
- Job 27:20–23Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
- Ps 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Heb 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
- Matt 7:27The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
- Ezek 13:11–14tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.
- Isa 30:30And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
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