Psalm 68:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish before the presence of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

² Like smoke is driven away, drive them away! Like wax melting before fire, let the wicked perish before God!

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul.

Psalm 68:2 Cross References

Micah 1:4

Then the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will burst open like wax near the fire, like waters poured down a slope.

Psalm 37:20

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

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burned like a fire, consuming briers and thorns; it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.

Psalm 97:5

The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.

Psalm 80:16

It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down; may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

Isaiah 64:2

as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence!

Psalm 76:7

But you indeed are awesome! Who can stand before you when your anger is roused?

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;

Numbers 10:35

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Arise, O Lord, let your enemies be scattered and your foes flee before you.”

2 Samuel 10:13

So Joab and the people who were with him moved forward into battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.

2 Samuel 10:18

The Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed of the Arameans seven hundred chariot teams and forty thousand horsemen and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.

Isaiah 33:3

At the sound of tumult, peoples fled; before your majesty, nations scattered.

Jeremiah 46:15

Why has Apis fled? Why did your bull not stand? Because the Lord thrust him down.