Psalm 37:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ But the wicked perish; 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ But my enemies live, and are stronger that I: and they hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

Psalm 37:20 Cross References

Genesis 19:28

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and beheld, and lo, smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

Psalm 102:3

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

Psalm 68:2

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

Psalm 68:3

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

Psalm 92:9

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

Proverbs 2:22

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

Leviticus 3:16

And the priest shall burn them on the altar as food offered by fire for a pleasing odor. All fat is the Lord's.

Luke 13:3

I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.

Luke 13:5

I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.”

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord would not pardon him, but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy would smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book would settle upon him, and the Lord would blot out his name from under heaven.

Hebrews 12:29

for our God is a consuming fire.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,

Judges 5:31

“So perish all thine enemies, O Lord! But thy friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.