Psalm 68:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:13

So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to 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 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; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures, they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

Psalm 76:7

But thou, terrible art thou! Who can stand before thee when once thy anger is roused?

Psalm 80:16

They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!

Psalm 97:5

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

Isaiah 33:3

At the thunderous noise peoples flee, at the lifting up of thyself nations are scattered;

Isaiah 64:2

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

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Jeremiah 46:15

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

Hosea 13:3

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

Micah 1:4

And the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will be cleft, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.

Numbers 10:35

And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.”