Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
As smoke is driven about, Let them be driven about, - As wax is melted before a fire, Let the lawless perish before God.
New American Standard Bible
As
So let the
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.
Holman Bible
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
International Standard Version
As smoke is driven away, so you drive them away. As wax melts in the presence of fire, so the wicked die in the presence of God.
A Conservative Version
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.
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.
Amplified
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked and guilty perish before [the presence of] God.
Bible in Basic English
Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
Darby Translation
As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the presence of God.
Julia Smith Translation
As smoke being dispersed thou wilt disperse: as wax melting from the face of fire, the unjust shall perish from the face of God.
King James 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As smoke is driven off, you will drive [them] off. As wax melts before fire, [the] wicked will perish before God.
Modern King James verseion
As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish in the presence of God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away; and like as wax melteth at the fire, so shall the ungodly perish at the presence of God.
NET Bible
As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.
New Heart 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.
Webster
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.
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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Fire » Characterized as » Melting
divine Presence » A terror to sinners a comfort to saints » A terror to evil does
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 68:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Majestic Power
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered, Yea let them that hate him flee before him: 2 As smoke is driven about, Let them be driven about, - As wax is melted before a fire, Let the lawless perish before God. 3 But let, the righteous, be glad, let them exult before God, Yea let them rejoice with gladness.
Cross References
Psalm 37:20
For, the lawless, shall perish, and, the foes of Yahweh, be like the glory of the meadows, They have vanished! In smoke, have they vanished!
Micah 1:4
Then shall the mountains be melted beneath him, and, the valleys, be cleft, - as wax before the fire, as waters poured out in a steep place.
Psalm 97:5
The mountains, like wax, have melted, At the presence of Yahweh, At the presence, of the Lord of all the earth.
Isaiah 9:18
For lawlessness, hath consumed like fire, Briars and thorns, doth it devour, - Yea it hath kindled upon the thickets of the forest, And they have rolled up as a column of smoke.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore, shall they become like the morning cloud, and like the dew early departing, - like chaff storm-driven out of the threshing-floor, and like smoke out of a chimney.
Psalm 80:16
To be burned with fire, it is cut down, - At the rebuke of thy countenance, they will perish.
Psalm 22:14
Like water, am I poured out, and, put out of joint, are all my bones, - My heart, hath become, like wax, it is melted in the midst of my body;
Psalm 76:7
As for thee, to be feared thou art! Who then shall stand before thee, because of the power of thine anger?
Isaiah 64:2
At thy presence, had mountains, quaked: As fire kindleth brushwood, As fire causeth, water, to boil, So if thou wouldst make known thy Name to thine adversaries, At thy presence, nations, would tremble.
Nahum 1:5-6
Mountains, have trembled because of him, and, the hills, have melted, - and the earth, hath lifted itself up, at his presence, the world also, and all who dwell therein.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
In a fiery flame; holding forth vengeance - against them that refuse to know God, and them who decline to hearken unto the glad-message of our Lord Jesus,
Revelation 6:16-17
and they say, unto the mountains and unto the rocks - Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb;