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

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

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

Berean Study Bible
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.

New American Standard Bible
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before a fire, So the wicked will perish before God.

NASB 1995
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked perish before God.

NASB 1977
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked perish before God.

Amplified Bible
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked and guilty perish before [the presence of] God.

Christian Standard Bible
As smoke is blown away, so you blow them away. As wax melts before the fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

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

Contemporary English Version
Scatter them like smoke! When you come near, make them melt like wax in a fire.

Good News Translation
As smoke is blown away, so he drives them off; as wax melts in front of the fire, so do the wicked perish in God's presence.

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

International Standard Version
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
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.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New 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.

King James 2000 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.

New Heart 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.

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.

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.

A Faithful Version
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish in 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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
As the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou driue them away: and as waxe melteth before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Lyke as the smoke vanisheth, so wylt thou cause them to vanishe away: and lyke as water melteth at the fire, so wyll the vngodly perishe at the presence of the Lorde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou dryue them awaye: and like as waxe melteth at the fyre, so shall the vngodly perish at the presence off God.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You drive them away as the driving away of smoke, "" As the melting of wax before fire, "" 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.

Smith's Literal Translation
As smoke being dispersed thou wilt disperse: as wax melting from the face of fire, the unjust shall perish from the face of God.

Catholic Translations
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Just as smoke vanishes, so may they vanish. Just as wax flows away before the face of fire, so may sinners pass away before the face of God.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they will vanish like smoke vanishes, and as wax is melted before fire, the wicked shall be destroyed from before God.

Lamsa Bible
As smoke is driven away, so let them vanish; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
As smoke vanishes, let them vanish: as wax melts before the fire, so let the sinners perish from before God.
















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