Psalm 68:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:13

So Joab and the people who were with him moved forward into battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.

2 Samuel 10:18

The Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed of the Arameans seven hundred chariot teams and forty thousand horsemen and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.

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 within my breast;

Psalm 37:20

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

Psalm 76:7

But you indeed are awesome! Who can stand before you when your anger is roused?

Psalm 80:16

It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down; may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

Psalm 97:5

The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.

Isaiah 33:3

At the sound of tumult, peoples fled; before your majesty, nations scattered.

Isaiah 64:2

as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence!

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burned like a fire, consuming briers and thorns; it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.

Jeremiah 46:15

Why has Apis fled? Why did your bull not stand? Because the Lord thrust him down.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

Micah 1:4

Then the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will burst open like wax near the fire, like waters poured down a slope.

Numbers 10:35

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Arise, O Lord, let your enemies be scattered and your foes flee before you.”