Psalm 37:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of the LORD shall be as the excellency of the pastures: They shall consume; in smoke shall they consume 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 melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Psalm 102:3

For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Luke 13:3

I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.

Judges 5:31

So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

Hebrews 12:29

for our God is a consuming fire.

Luke 13:5

I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Psalm 92:9

For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, For, lo, thine enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

Deuteronomy 29:20

the LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Genesis 19:28

and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Leviticus 3:16

And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.

Psalm 68:3

But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God: Yea, let them rejoice with gladness.

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.