Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish before God.

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

As smoke is blown away,
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.

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.

References

Easton

Wax

Hastings

Joy

Watsons

Context Readings

God's Majestic Power

1 To the overseer; to David chanting of a song. God will rise; his enemies shall be scattered, and they hating him shall flee from his face. 2 As smoke being dispersed thou wilt disperse: as wax melting from the face of fire, the unjust shall perish from the face of God. 3 And the just shall be glad; they shall rejoice before God, and they shall rejoice with gladness.


Cross References

Psalm 37:20

For the unjust shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah as the preciousness of lambs: they ended in smoke; they ended.

Micah 1:4

And the mountains melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft as wax from the face of the fire, as waters cast down in a descent

Psalm 97:5

The mountains melted as wax from before the face of Jehovah, from before the face of the Lord of all the earth.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burnt as fire; the sharp point and the thorn it shall consume, and shall burn in the thickets of the forest, and they shall roll up in the mounting up of smoke.

Hosea 13:3

For this they shall be as the cloud of the morning, and as the early dew going way; as the chaff will be driven from the threshing-floor on the wind, and as the smoke from the chimney.

Psalm 80:16

Burning it in fire, tutting it down; from the rebuke of thy face they shall perish.

Psalm 22:14

I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 76:7

Thou art feared, thou: and who shall stand before thee from the time of thine anger?

Isaiah 64:2

As the fire of meltings was kindled the fire will cause the water to boil, to cause thy name to be known to thine adversaries; from thy face shall the nations be moved.

Nahum 1:5-6

The mountains shook from him, and the hills melted, and the earth will lift up from his face, and the habitable globe and all dwelling in it

2 Thessalonians 1:8-9

In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Revelation 6:16-17

And they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him sitting upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

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