Psalm 37:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But the wicked perish, and the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

Psalm 102:3

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Psalm 68:2

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before God.

Psalm 68:3

But let the righteous be joyful; let them exult before God; let them be jubilant with joy.

Psalm 92:9

For your enemies, O Lord, for your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.

Proverbs 2:22

but the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Leviticus 3:16

Then the priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as a food offering by fire for a pleasing odor. “All fat is the Lord’s.

Luke 13:3

No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.

Luke 13:5

No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish just as they did.”

Deuteronomy 29:20

the Lord will be unwilling to pardon them, for then the Lord’s anger and passion will smoke against them. All the curses written in this book will descend on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.

Hebrews 12:29

for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,

Judges 5:31

So perish all your enemies, O Lord! But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.” And the land had rest forty years.