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Psalm 68:2

As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off.

As wax melts before fire,

the wicked will perish before God.

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Psalm 68:2 — The New International Version (NIV)

May you blow them away like smoke—

as wax melts before the fire,

may the wicked perish before God.

Psalm 68:2 — English Standard Version (ESV)

As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;

as wax melts before fire,

so the wicked shall perish before God!

Psalm 68:2 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

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.

Psalm 68:2 — New Living Translation (NLT)

Blow them away like smoke.

Melt them like wax in a fire.

Let the wicked perish in the presence of God.

Psalm 68:2 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

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.

Psalm 68:2 — New Century Version (NCV)

Blow them away as smoke

is driven away by the wind.

As wax melts before a fire,

let the wicked be destroyed before God.

Psalm 68:2 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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.

Psalm 68:2 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

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

Psalm 68:2 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Blow them away like smoke. 

Let wicked people melt in God’s presence like wax next to a fire. 

Psalm 68:2 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

As smoke is blown away,

so You blow them away.

As wax melts before the fire,

so the wicked are destroyed before God.

Psalm 68:2 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;

as wax melts before the fire,

let the wicked perish before God.

Psalm 68:2 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

As wind blows smoke away,

so may God blow them away.

As fire melts wax,

so may he destroy sinful people.

Psalm 68:2 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;

As wax melts before the fire,

So let the wicked perish before God.


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