Psa 68:2, Isa 9:18, 10:17-19, 27:4, Mal 4:1 | ESV | STEP | As smoke is driven away , so you shall drive them away ; as wax melts before fire , so the wicked shall perish before God !

Psalms 68:2

2 As ^asmoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;
^bas wax melts before fire,
so the wicked shall perish before God!

Isaiah 9:18

18 For wickedness burns like ^ca fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 10:17-19

17 ^dThe light of Israel will become a fire,
and ^ehis Holy One a flame,
and ^fit will burn and devour
his thorns and briers ^gin one day.
18 The glory of ^hhis forest and of his ⁱfruitful land
the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
19 The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
that a child can write them down.

Isaiah 27:4

4 I have no wrath.
^jWould that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.

Malachi 4:1

The Great Day of the Lord

1 ^{▼▼Ch 4:1–6 is ch 3:19–24 in Hebrew} “For behold, ^lthe day is coming, ^mburning like an oven, when ⁿall the arrogant and ^oall evildoers ^pwill be stubble. The day that is coming ^qshall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.