Psalms 68:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָק֣וּם אֱ֭לֹהִים יָפ֣וּצוּ אוֹיְבָ֑יו וְיָנ֥וּסוּ מְ֝שַׂנְאָ֗יו מִפָּנָֽיו׃

Transliteration

yāqûm ʾĕlōhîm yāpûṣû ʾôyəbāyw wə-yānûsû məśanəʾāyw mippānāyw

Grammar Details

*yāqûm*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - 'let him arise'
*ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun with singular meaning - God
*yāpûṣû*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - 'they will be scattered'
*ʾôyəbāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular possessive suffix - 'his enemies'
*wə-yānûsû*: conjunction וְ (and) + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - 'and they will flee'
*məśanəʾāyw*: Piel participle masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular possessive suffix - 'those hating him'
*mippānāyw*: preposition מִן (from) + masculine plural noun פָּנִים (face) with 3rd masculine singular possessive suffix - 'from his face/presence'

Word Meanings

*yāqûm*: arise/stand up/get up
*ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine beings
*yāpûṣû*: be scattered/dispersed/spread
*məśanəʾāyw*: his haters/those who hate him

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Ps 37:20 : 20 But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; in smoke shall they consume away.
Mic 1:4 : 4 And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
Ps 97:5 : 5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Isa 9:18 : 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Ps 80:16 : 16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Ps 22:14 : 14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
Ps 76:7 : 7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared; And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Rev 6:16-17 : 16 and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
Isa 64:2 : 2 as when fire kindleth the brushwood, [and] the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

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Ps 68:1
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Isa 64:2
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Hos 13:3
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