Psalms 37:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰But 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.

Psalms 37:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 68:2
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.
Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Luke 13:3
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Deuteronomy 33:14-16
And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, …
Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Topics

Fat Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-20)

In these verses we have, I. The foregoing precepts inculcated; for we are so apt to disquiet ourselves with needless fruitless discontents and distrusts that it is necessary there should be precept upon precept, and line upon line, to suppress them and arm us against them. 1. Let us compose ourselves by believing in God: “ Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him (Ps. 37:7), that is, be well r…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. While the wicked, however mighty, are destroyed, and that utterly, as smoke which vanishes and leaves no trace.