Psalms 68:2

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Ps 37:20 : 20 But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.
  • Mic 1:4 : 4 The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
  • Ps 97:5 : 5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
  • Isa 9:18 : 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.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
  • Ps 80:16 : 16 It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
  • Ps 76:7 : 7 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
  • Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
  • 2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
  • Rev 6:16-17 : 16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"
  • Isa 64:2 : 2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

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    1Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

  • Ps 37:20
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    20But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.

  • Ps 58:7-9
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    7Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

    8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

    9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • Ps 68:3
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    3But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For 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 112:10
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    10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Ps 83:13-15
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    13My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

    14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

    15so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

  • Ps 69:24-25
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    24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

    25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

  • Job 21:18
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    18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • Ps 18:8
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    8Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

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

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

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

  • Ps 97:3
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    3A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

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

  • Ps 140:10
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    10Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

  • Ps 21:9
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    9You 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 64:2
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    2as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

  • Hos 13:3
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    3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

  • 2 Sam 22:9
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    9Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.

  • Lam 3:66
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    66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

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    16It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

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

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    17Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

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    5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

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

  • Ps 56:7
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    7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

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    6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

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    5Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.

  • Ps 5:10
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    10Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Ps 73:18-19
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    18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

    19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Ps 144:6
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    6Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

  • Ps 9:3
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    3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

  • 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 11:6
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    6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

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    3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

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    13Consume 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.

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

  • Ps 118:12
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    12They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

  • Jer 6:29
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    29The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

  • Joel 2:3
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    3A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • Ps 74:8
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    8They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.