Psalm 68:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

Psalm 37:20

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.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns: yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.

Psalm 97:5

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Psalm 80:16

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Isaiah 64:2

as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil: to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence.

Psalm 76:7

Thou, even thou, art to be feared: And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

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 in the midst of my bowels.

Numbers 10:35

And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, O LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.

2 Samuel 10:13

So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh unto the 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 smote Shobach the captain of their host, that he died there.

Isaiah 33:3

At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.

Jeremiah 46:15

Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.