Psalms 37:20

World English Bible (2000)

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.

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  • Ps 102:3 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
  • Ps 68:2 : 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
  • Ps 92:9 : 9 For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.
  • Deut 33:14-16 : 14 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things of the growth of the moons, 15 for the chief things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills, 16 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let [the blessing] come on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
  • Judg 5:31 : 31 "So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years.
  • Luke 13:3 : 3 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
  • Luke 13:5 : 5 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way."
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
  • Gen 19:28 : 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
  • Lev 3:3-9 : 3 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 5 Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. 6 "'If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before Yahweh; 8 and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 9 He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards, 10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 11 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
  • Lev 3:16 : 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh's.
  • Deut 29:20 : 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

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  • Ps 68:2
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    2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

  • Ps 37:38
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    38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Ps 112:10
    76%

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

  • Ps 37:2
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    2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

  • Isa 5:17
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    17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

  • Ps 21:9
    74%

    9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

  • Isa 1:28
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    28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

  • Ps 92:9
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    9 For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

  • Ps 92:7
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    7 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

  • Lev 26:38
    73%

    38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.

  • Isa 9:18
    73%

    18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • Ps 34:21
    72%

    21 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

  • Ps 37:9-10
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    71%

    9 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

    10 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

  • Job 22:20
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    20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • Ps 37:19
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    19 They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

  • Ps 1:6
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    6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • Job 4:9
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    9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

  • Ps 145:20
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    20 Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

  • Ps 83:17
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    17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

  • Ps 37:21
    70%

    21 The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.

  • Prov 2:22
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    22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

  • Job 8:22
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    22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."

  • Ps 9:6
    69%

    6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

  • Ps 104:35
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    35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!

  • Nah 1:8
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    8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11 You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

    12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

  • Prov 24:20
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    20 for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

  • Ps 27:2
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    2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

  • Ps 34:16
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    16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

  • Ps 59:13
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    13 Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

  • Ps 81:15
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    15 The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

  • Isa 29:20
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    20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off--

  • Job 21:18
    68%

    18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • Mal 4:1
    68%

    1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

  • Ps 37:17
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    17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

  • Zeph 1:18
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    18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

  • Isa 47:14
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    14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

  • Job 6:17
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    17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

  • Isa 66:24
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    24 "They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind."

  • Ps 55:15
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    15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Job 18:5
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    5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Isa 5:24
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    24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Mal 4:3
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    3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Armies.