Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him!
2
As
So let the
Cross References
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish--like smoke they vanish away.
Micah 1:4
And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
Psalm 97:5
The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
Psalm 80:16
They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
Psalm 76:7
But you, you are to be feared! Who can stand before you when once your anger is roused?
Isaiah 64:2
as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil-- to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Nahum 1:5-6
The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Revelation 6:16-17
calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,