Psalm 68:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before 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

And the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will be cleft, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.

Psalm 37:20

But the wicked perish; 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 early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll 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

They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!

Isaiah 64:2

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

Psalm 76:7

But thou, terrible art thou! Who can stand before thee when once thy 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

And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.”

2 Samuel 10:13

So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians; and they fled before him.

2 Samuel 10:18

And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.

Isaiah 33:3

At the thunderous noise peoples flee, at the lifting up of thyself nations are scattered;

Jeremiah 46:15

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