Psalms 37:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But evil men will die; the LORD’s enemies will be incinerated– they will go up in smoke.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:3 : 3 For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
  • Ps 68:2 : 2 As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.
  • Ps 92:9 : 9 Indeed, look at your enemies, O LORD! Indeed, look at how your enemies perish! All the evildoers are scattered!
  • Deut 33:14-16 : 14 with the harvest produced by the daylight and by the moonlight; 15 with the best of the ancient mountains and the harvest produced by the age-old hills; 16 with the harvest of the earth and its fullness and the pleasure of him who resided in the burning bush. May blessing rest on Joseph’s head, and on the top of the head of the one set apart from his brothers.
  • Judg 5:31 : 31 May all your enemies perish like this, O LORD! But may those who love you shine like the rising sun at its brightest!” And the land had rest for forty years.
  • Luke 13:3 : 3 No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well!
  • Luke 13:5 : 5 No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is indeed a devouring fire.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,
  • Gen 19:28 : 28 He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.
  • Lev 3:3-9 : 3 Then the one presenting the offering must present a gift to the LORD from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that surrounds the entrails, 4 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys). 5 Then the sons of Aaron must offer it up in smoke on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the wood in the fire as a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD. 6 Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering for a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a flawless male or female. 7 If he presents a sheep as his offering, he must present it before the LORD. 8 He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar’s sides. 9 Then he must present a gift to the LORD from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove all the fatty tail up to the end of the spine, the fat covering the entrails, and all the fat on the entrails, 10 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys). 11 Then the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar as a food gift to the LORD.
  • Lev 3:16 : 16 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD.
  • Deut 29:20 : 20 The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 68:2
    77%

    2As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

  • Ps 37:38
    77%

    38Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

  • Ps 112:10
    76%

    10When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Ps 37:2
    75%

    2For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

  • Isa 5:17
    75%

    17Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

  • Ps 21:9
    74%

    9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

  • Isa 1:28
    74%

    28All rebellious sinners will be shattered, those who abandon the LORD will perish.

  • Ps 92:9
    74%

    9Indeed, look at your enemies, O LORD! Indeed, look at how your enemies perish! All the evildoers are scattered!

  • Ps 92:7
    74%

    7When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

  • Lev 26:38
    73%

    38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Isa 9:18
    73%

    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

  • Ps 34:21
    72%

    21Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

  • Ps 37:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the LORD are the ones who will possess the land.

    10Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.

  • Job 22:20
    71%

    20‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

  • Ps 37:19
    71%

    19They will not be ashamed when hard times come; when famine comes they will have enough to eat.

  • Ps 1:6
    71%

    6Certainly the LORD guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

  • Nah 1:10
    71%

    10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

  • Job 4:9
    70%

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

  • Ps 145:20
    70%

    20The LORD protects all those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.

  • Ps 83:17
    70%

    17May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!

  • Ps 37:21
    70%

    21Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.

  • Prov 2:22
    70%

    22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

  • Job 8:22
    70%

    22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

  • Ps 9:6
    69%

    6The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.

  • Ps 104:35
    69%

    35May sinners disappear from the earth, and the wicked vanish! Praise the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!

  • Nah 1:8
    69%

    8But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

  • Isa 33:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

    12The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.

  • Prov 24:20
    69%

    20for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

  • Ps 27:2
    69%

    2When evil men attack me to devour my flesh, when my adversaries and enemies attack me, they stumble and fall.

  • Ps 34:16
    69%

    16But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.

  • Ps 59:13
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    13Angrily wipe them out! Wipe them out so they vanish! Let them know that God rules in Jacob and to the ends of the earth!(Selah)

  • Ps 81:15
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    15(May those who hate the LORD cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)

  • Isa 29:20
    69%

    20For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated–

  • Job 21:18
    68%

    18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • Mal 4:1
    68%

    1(3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.

  • Ps 58:7
    68%

    7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

  • Ps 37:17
    68%

    17for evil men will lose their power, but the LORD sustains the godly.

  • Zeph 1:18
    68%

    18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth.”

  • Isa 47:14
    68%

    14Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.

  • Job 6:17
    68%

    17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

  • Isa 66:24
    68%

    24“They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent.”

  • Ps 55:15
    68%

    15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • Ps 37:14
    68%

    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Job 18:5
    68%

    5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

  • Ps 37:12
    68%

    12Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them.

  • Ps 37:32
    68%

    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

  • Isa 5:24
    68%

    24Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Mal 4:3
    68%

    3You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.