Psalm 37:20

New American Bible - revised edition

The wicked perish, enemies of the Lord; They shall be consumed like fattened lambs; like smoke they disappear.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

As he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole region of the Plain, he saw smoke over the land rising like the smoke from a kiln.

Psalm 102:3

Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.

Psalm 68:2

May God arise; may his enemies be scattered; may those who hate him flee before him.

Psalm 68:3

As the smoke is dispersed, disperse them; as wax is melted by fire, so may the wicked perish before God.

Psalm 92:9

but you, Lord, are forever on high.

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked will be cut off from the land, the faithless will be rooted out of it.

Leviticus 3:16

The priest shall burn these on the altar as food, a sweet-smelling oblation. All the fat belongs to the Lord.

Luke 13:3

By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!

Luke 13:5

By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!” The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for doom, in keeping with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. Punishment for Idolatry.

Hebrews 12:29

For our God is a consuming fire.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed,

Judges 5:31

So perish all your enemies, O Lord! But may those who love you be like the sun rising in its might! And the land was at rest for forty years.