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Psalm 83:15

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

13My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
15so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
16Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.
17Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
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A storm becomes a weapon in this prayer against Israel's attackers, exposing how severe a plea for God's judgment can be.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Job 9:17For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.Both describe God's storm as a force that harms, though Job suffers it himself while the psalm asks it against others.
Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.Both use violent weather to picture overwhelming force: a pursuing tempest in the psalm and a wind carrying someone away in Job.
Psalm 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.Both associate God with storm, presenting his presence or action as something fearsome.
Isaiah 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 …Both depict God's judgment through violent weather, with Isaiah naming the lies and hiding places that hail and water will overwhelm.
Psalm 58:9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.Both portray God's action against people as overwhelming force, through pursuit and terror here and sweeping away in Psalm 58.
Lamentations 3:43“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.Both speak of God pursuing people in judgment, but Lamentations voices the suffering of those pursued.
Exodus 9:18Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.Both attribute destructive weather to God: the psalm requests a tempest, while Exodus announces grievous hail over Egypt.
Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,Storm is the shared image, though Hebrews describes a mountain its readers have not approached rather than a pursuit.
Matthew 7:27The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”Both portray weather as an overwhelming force, though Matthew describes a house collapsing rather than God pursuing people.
Psalm 11:6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.Both portray God's judgment through destructive weather, with Psalm 11 naming the wicked as those receiving it.
Job 27:20–23Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.Both join terror with storm, picturing someone overtaken by a force beyond their control.
Amos 1:14But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;Both connect storm imagery with God's action against people, while Amos also names fire and battle at Rabbah.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. fear for the future. sermon or Bible study notes.

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Pray for one threatened community's protection and its attackers' repentance

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Encouragement

This prayer entrusts judgment to God. Its request for terror is severe, and the next verse asks that those under judgment seek YHWH’s name.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).