Psalm 68:2
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עָשָׁן
ʻâshân
smoke, literally or figuratively (vapor, dust, anger)
נָדַח
nâdach
to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
מָסַס
mâçaç
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
אָבַד
ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
Key Terms in This Verse
מָסַס mâçaç
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
Study H4549 →נָדַח nâdach
to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.)
Study H5080 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →אָבַד ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Study H6 →Cross References
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
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