Psalms 68:2

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Psalms 68:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

2 As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

3 But the righteous will be glad and rejoice before God; they will celebrate with joy.

4 Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. Exalt Him who rides on the clouds — His name is the LORD— and rejoice before Him.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 37:20

But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore 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.

Psalms 97:5

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

Isaiah 64:2

as 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!

Micah 1:4

The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

Psalms 76:7

You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?

Psalms 80:16

Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.

Nahum 1:6

Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

Revelation 6:16

And 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.

Revelation 6:17

For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”