Psalm 68:2
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New International Version (©2011)
May you blow them away like smoke-- as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Blow them away like smoke. Melt them like wax in a fire. Let the wicked perish in the presence of God.

English Standard Version (©2001)
As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked perish before God.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
As smoke is blown away, so You blow them away. As wax melts before the fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

International Standard Version (©2012)
As smoke is driven away, so you drive them away. As wax melts in the presence of fire, so the wicked die in the presence of God.

NET Bible (©2006)
As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And they will vanish like smoke vanishes, and as wax is melted before fire, the wicked shall be destroyed from before God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Blow them away like smoke. Let wicked people melt in God's presence like wax next to a fire.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

American King James Version
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Darby Bible Translation
As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the presence of God.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Young's Literal Translation
As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

68:1-6 None ever hardened his heart against God, and prospered. God is the joy of his people, then let them rejoice when they come before him. He who derives his being from none, but gives being to all, is engaged by promise and covenant to bless his people. He is to be praised as a God of mercy and tender compassion. He ever careth for the afflicted and oppressed: repenting sinners, who are helpless and exposed more than any fatherless children, are admitted into his family, and share all their blessings.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As clouds of smoke are dispersed and driven away by the wind, and totally disappear, so let God, whenever his enemies congregate, scatter and disperse them, and reduce them to nothingness. As wax melteth before the firs, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. As smoke vanishes, so wax entirely melts away and disappears before a hot fire (comp. Psalm 22:14; Psalm 97:5).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away,.... This both describes the character of wicked men, Christ's enemies; as their darkness and ignorance, their will worship and superstition, and their detestableness to God, Revelation 9:2; and the manner of their destruction; which is as easily brought about as smoke is driven by the wind, and is as irretrievable, like smoke that vanisheth into air (o); see Psalm 37:20;

as wax melteth before fire; whereby its consistency, form, and strength, are lost. Respect may be had, both in this and the foregoing metaphor, to the fire of, divine wrath, and the smoke of eternal torments; since it follows:

so let the wicked perish at the presence of God; the appearance of Christ, either in his awful dispensation against the Jews, or in the last judgment; when the wicked shall not be able to stand before his face, but shall call to the rocks and mountains to hide them from him; and when they shall be bid to depart from him, and shall be punished with everlasting destruction in soul and body, from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power.

(o) "----et tenues fugit, ceu fumus in auras". Virgil. Aeneid. 5. prope finem.

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Let God's Enemies Be Scattered!
1Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. 2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. 3But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice. …

Numbers 10:35 Whenever the ark set out, Moses said, "Rise up, LORD! May your enemies be scattered; may your foes flee before you."
Judges 5:31 "So may all your enemies perish, LORD! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength." Then the land had peace forty years.
Psalm 9:3 My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.
Psalm 37:20 But the wicked will perish: Though the LORD's enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.
Psalm 80:16 Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire; at your rebuke your people perish.
Psalm 97:5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
Isaiah 9:18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
Jeremiah 46:15 Why will your warriors be laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD will push them down.
Hosea 13:3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window.
Micah 1:4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.