Psalms 68:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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.

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  • Ps 37:20 : 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
  • Mic 1:4 : 4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
  • Ps 97:5 : 5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
  • Isa 9:18 : 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the 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 in the midst of my bowels.
  • 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 burned 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 fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
  • 2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
  • Rev 6:16-17 : 16 And said to the mountains and 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 his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
  • Isa 64:2 : 2 As when the melting fire burneth, 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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    1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

  • Ps 37:20
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    20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

  • Ps 58:7-9
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    7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

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  • Ps 68:3
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    3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

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    10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

  • Ps 83:13-15
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    13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

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    24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

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  • Job 6:17-18
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    17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

  • Job 21:18
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    18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

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    8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

  • Ps 92:7
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    7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

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    9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

  • Ps 69:28
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    28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

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    3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

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    10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

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    9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

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    2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

  • Hos 13:3
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    3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  • 2 Sam 22:9
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    9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

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    5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

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    9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

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    7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

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    5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

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    3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

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    29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

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    8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.