Psalms 68:2

As smoke and melting wax vanish before fire, so the wicked perish before God. It pictures the certain undoing of evil in God's presence.

Cross-references · 12

• Mic 1:4The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
• Ps 37:20But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
• Hos 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
• Isa 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
• Ps 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
• Rev 6:16–17And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
• Ps 80:16Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
• Ps 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
• Isa 64:2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
• Ps 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
• Nah 1:5–6The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.
• 2 Th 1:8–9in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

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