² 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.

⁴ The mountains melt under him, And the valleys split apart, Like wax before the fire, Like waters that are poured down a steep place.

²⁰ But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- Vanish like smoke.

³ Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.

¹⁸ For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

⁵ The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

¹⁶ It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

¹⁶ They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"

⁸ giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus,

⁹ who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

⁵ The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

⁶ Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

² as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

⁷ You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

¹⁴ I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.