Psalm 37:20

The Passion Translation

All the enemies of God will perish. For the wicked have only a momentary value, a fading glory. Then one day they vanish! Here today, gone tomorrow.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

Looking down toward all the land of the plain, he saw columns of smoke billowing up from Sodom and Gomorrah —like the smoke of a furnace!

Psalm 102:3

For my days of happiness have gone up in smoke. My body is raging with fever, my heart is sick, and I’m consumed by this illness— withered like a dead leaf. I can’t even eat.

Psalm 68:2

Chase them away—all these God-haters. Blow them away as a puff of smoke. Melt them away like wax in the fire. One good look at you and the wicked vanish.

Psalm 68:3

But let all the righteous be glad! Yes, let them all rejoice in your presence and be carried away with gladness. Let them laugh and be radiant with joy!

Psalm 92:9

while your opponents, the workers of wickedness, will all perish, forever separated from you.

Proverbs 2:22

But the treacherous ones who love darkness will lose not only all they could have had, but even their own souls!

Luke 13:3

No, they weren’t! So listen to me, unless you all repent, you will perish as they did.

Luke 13:5

No, they weren’t, and unless you repent, you too will all eternally perish, just as they did.”

Hebrews 12:29

For our God is a holy, devouring fire!

2 Peter 2:12

These individuals are nothing but brute beasts—irrational creatures, born in the wild to be caught and destroyed—and they will perish like beasts. They are professional insulters, who slander whatever they don’t understand, and in their destruction they will be destroyed.

Judges 5:31

Yahweh, may all who hate you perish in the same way! But may those who love you shine like the sun, bright in its strength as it crosses the sky! Then the land had peace for forty years.