Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. 2 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. 3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice.
Cross References
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Micah 1:4
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Psalm 97:5
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the rising of smoke.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind from the floor, and as the smoke from the chimney.
Psalm 80:16
It is burnt with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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 in the midst of my bowels.
Psalm 76:7
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
Isaiah 64:2
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thy adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Nahum 1:5-6
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell therein.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Revelation 6:16-17
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: