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.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAs smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
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.
As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.
As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the presence ofGod.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.