Psalms 68:2

In 11 translations

BSB

As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

KJV

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.

WEB

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.

ASV

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.

LSV

You drive them away as the driving away of smoke, || As the melting of wax before fire, || The wicked perish at the presence of God.

YLT

As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.

DBY

As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the presence of God.Elohim

DRC67:3

As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

GNV

As the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou driue them away: and as waxe melteth before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.

JPS68:3

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.

LXXE67:3

As smoke vanishes, let them vanish: as wax melts before the fire, so let the sinners perish from before God.

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WLC68:3

כְּהִנְדֹּ֥ף עָשָׁ֗ן תִּ֫נְדֹּ֥ף כְּהִמֵּ֣ס דּ֭וֹנַג מִפְּנֵי־אֵ֑שׁ יֹאבְד֥וּ רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים מִפְּנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים׃KJV:Ps.68.2

LXX-Br67:3

Ὡς ἐκλείπει καπνὸς, ἐκλιπέτωσαν· ὡς τήκεται κηρὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου πυρὸς, οὕτως ἀπόλοιντο οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ.

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• Micah 1:4The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
• Psalms 37:20But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
• Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
• Psalms 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
• Revelation 6:16–17And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to…
• Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
• Psalms 80:16Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
• Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
• Isaiah 64:2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
• Psalms 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
• Nahum 1:5–6The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers. Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out…
• 2 Thessalonians 1:8–9in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the…

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