Psalms 68:2

Psalms chapter 68 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

King James Version · 1611

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

American Standard Version · 1901

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

v.1Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; Let them also that hate him flee before him.

v.2This passage

v.3But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God: Yea, let them rejoice with gladness.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

2 Thessalonians 1:8
rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
Isaiah 64:2
as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Micah 1:4
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Psalms 37:20
But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; in smoke shall they consume away.