KJV King James Version
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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Psalm 68:2
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
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 American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.
Surrounding context — Psalm 68
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
2 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.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כְּהִנְדֹּ֥ףH5086 · na.daphto driveעָשָׁ֗ןH6227 · a.shansmokeתִּ֫נְדֹּ֥ףH5086 · na.daphto driveכְּהִמֵּ֣סH4549 · ma.sasto meltדּ֭וֹנַגH1749 · do.nagwaxמִפְּנֵי־H6440 · pa.nehface: beforeאֵ֑שׁH784 · eshfireיֹאבְד֥וּH6 · a.vadto perishרְ֝שָׁעִ֗יםH7563 · ra.sahwickedמִפְּנֵ֥יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeאֱלֹהִֽים׃H430 · e.lo.himGod
Cross-references
Micah 1:4And 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.Psalm 37:20But 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.Hosea 13:3Therefore 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.Isaiah 9:18For 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.Psalm 97:5The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.Revelation 6:16-17And 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:Psalm 80:16[It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.Psalm 76:7Thou, [even] thou, [art] to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?2 Thessalonians 1:8-9In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:Nahum 1:5-6The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.Isaiah 64:2As [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!Psalm 22:14I 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.
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