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

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The mountains melt beneath his feet
    and flow into the valleys
like wax in a fire,
    like water pouring down a hill.

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20 But the wicked will die.
    The Lord’s enemies are like flowers in a field—
    they will disappear like smoke.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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16 For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies.
    May they perish at the sight of your frown.

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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. They will be punished with eternal destruction, forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power.

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In his presence the mountains quake,
    and the hills melt away;
the earth trembles,
    and its people are destroyed.
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.

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[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!

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Footnotes

  1. 64:2 Verses 64:2-12 are numbered 64:1-11 in Hebrew text.

No wonder you are greatly feared!
    Who can stand before you when your anger explodes?

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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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