Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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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Bible References

As smoke

Psalm 37:20
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of LORD [is] as the fat of lambs: they shall disintegrate; they shall disintegrate away into smoke.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yea, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passes away early, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

As wax

Psalm 97:5
The mountains melted like wax at the presence of LORD, at the presence of LORD of the whole earth.
Isaiah 64:2
as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Micah 1:4
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

At the presence

Psalm 76:7
Thou, even thou, are to be feared. And who may stand in thy sight when once thou are angry?
Psalm 80:16
It is burned with fire, it is cut down. They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Revelation 6:16
And they say to the mountains and to 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.

General references

Psalm 35:9
And my soul shall be joyful in LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation.