Psalm 68:2
New Living Translation
2 Blow them away like smoke.
Melt them like wax in a fire.
Let the wicked perish in the presence of God.
Micah 1:4
New Living Translation
4 The mountains melt beneath his feet
and flow into the valleys
like wax in a fire,
like water pouring down a hill.
Psalm 37:20
New Living Translation
20 But the wicked will die.
The Lord’s enemies are like flowers in a field—
they will disappear like smoke.
Hosea 13:3
New Living Translation
3 Therefore, they will disappear like the morning mist,
like dew in the morning sun,
like chaff blown by the wind,
like smoke from a chimney.
Isaiah 9:18
New Living Translation
18 This wickedness is like a brushfire.
It burns not only briers and thorns
but also sets the forests ablaze.
Its burning sends up clouds of smoke.
Psalm 97:5
New Living Translation
5 The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,
before the Lord of all the earth.
Revelation 6:16-17
New Living Translation
16 And they cried to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to survive?”
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Psalm 80:16
New Living Translation
16 For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies.
May they perish at the sight of your frown.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
New Living Translation
8 in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with eternal destruction, forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power.
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Nahum 1:5-6
New Living Translation
5 In his presence the mountains quake,
and the hills melt away;
the earth trembles,
and its people are destroyed.
6 Who can stand before his fierce anger?
Who can survive his burning fury?
His rage blazes forth like fire,
and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence.
Isaiah 64:2
New Living Translation
2 [a]As fire causes wood to burn
and water to boil,
your coming would make the nations tremble.
Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame!
Footnotes
- 64:2 Verses 64:2-12 are numbered 64:1-11 in Hebrew text.
Psalm 76:7
New Living Translation
7 No wonder you are greatly feared!
Who can stand before you when your anger explodes?
Psalm 22:14
New Living Translation
14 My life is poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax,
melting within me.
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