Psalms 1:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.”
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BSBPD
“Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Not so the wicked: But--as chaff that wind driveth away!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 1:4 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
- Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
- Jeremiah 13:24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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