Psalm 37:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ But the wicked perish, and the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke] and as the glory of the pastures. They shall vanish; like smoke shall they consume away.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; in smoke shall they consume away.

Common English Bible

²⁰ But the wicked will die, the LORD’s enemies will disappear— disappear like the beauty of a meadow—in smoke.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ But my enemies live, and they have been stronger than me. And those who have wrongfully hated me have been multiplied.

Psalm 37:20 Cross References

Psalm 68:2

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

Psalm 102:3

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Luke 13:3

No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.

Judges 5:31

So perish all your enemies, O Lord! But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.” And the land had rest forty years.

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,

Hebrews 12:29

for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

Luke 13:5

No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish just as they did.”

Psalm 92:9

For your enemies, O Lord, for your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.

Deuteronomy 29:20

the Lord will be unwilling to pardon them, for then the Lord’s anger and passion will smoke against them. All the curses written in this book will descend on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.

Genesis 19:28

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

Leviticus 3:16

Then the priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as a food offering by fire for a pleasing odor. “All fat is the Lord’s.

Psalm 68:3

But let the righteous be joyful; let them exult before God; let them be jubilant with joy.

Proverbs 2:22

but the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.