Psalm 68:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, The wrong perish before Elohim.

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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

2 Samuel 10:13

And Yo’aḇ

2 Samuel 10:18

And Aram fled before Yisra’ĕ

Psalm 22:14

I have been poured out like water, And all My bones have been spread apart; My heart has become like wax; It has melted in the midst of My inward parts.

Psalm 37:20

But the wrongdoers shall perish; And the enemies of יהוה, Like the splendour of the meadows they vanish, Like smoke they vanish away.

Psalm 76:7

You, You are to be feared; And who would stand in Your presence When You are displeased?

Psalm 80:16

It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your face.

Psalm 97:5

The mountains shall melt like wax before the face of יהוה, Before the face of the Master of all the earth.

Isaiah 33:3

At the noise of the rumbling the people shall flee. When You lift Yourself up, the gentiles shall be scattered.

Isaiah 64:2

as when fire burns twigs, as fire makes water boil – to make Your Name known to Your adversaries, so that nations tremble before You.

Isaiah 9:18

For wrongness burns as the fire; it consumes thornbushes and weeds, and sets the bushes of the forest ablaze, and they roll up like rising smoke.

Jeremiah 46:15

“Why were your strong ones swept away? They did not stand because יהוה  drove them away.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be like a morning cloud, and like dew that goes away early, like chaff blown off from a threshing-floor, and like smoke from a window.

Micah 1:4

And the mountains shall melt under Him, and the valleys be cleft as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.

Numbers 10:35

And it came to be, whenever the ark set out, that Mosheh said, “Rise up, O יהוה! And let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee before You.”