Psalms 68:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.”
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“As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 68:2 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 10:35Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
- 2 Samuel 10:13So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.
- 2 Samuel 10:18But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalms 37:20But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
- Psalms 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
- Psalms 80:16Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
- Psalms 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
- Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
- Isaiah 33:3The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.
- Isaiah 64:2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
- Jeremiah 46:15Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.
- 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.
- Micah 1:4The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
- Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- Revelation 6:16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
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