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
Indeed, the wicked will perish. The LORD's enemies will be consumed like flowers in the fields. They will vanish like smoke.
Isaiah 9:18
"For wickedness has burned like a blaze that consumes briers and thorns; it sets thickets of the forest on fire, and skyward they swirl in a column of smoke.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like morning clouds, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff blown away from the threshing floor, or like smoke from a chimney."

As wax

Psalm 97:5
Mountains melt like wax in the LORD's presence In the presence of the LORD of all the earth.
Isaiah 64:2
just as fire sets twigs ablaze and the fire causes water to boil to make known your name to your enemies, yes, to your enemies before you, so that the nations might quake at your presence!
Micah 1:4
The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will split apart, like wax in the presence of fire and like water gushing down a steep incline.

At the presence

Psalm 76:7
You are awesome! who can stand in your presence when you're angry?
Psalm 80:16
was burned with fire, cut off, and destroyed on account of your rebuke.
Nahum 1:5
Mountains shake because of him, and the hills melt. The earth goes into upheaval at his presence, as does the world with all of its inhabitants.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
in blazing fire. He will take revenge on those who do not know God and on those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Revelation 6:16
They told the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb.

General references

Psalm 35:9
My soul will rejoice in the LORD and be glad in his deliverance.

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