Quotes about Smoke
An earth hard as iron lay locked beneath a sky whose mottled clouds spit snow like ashes sucked up a chimney and then dispersed with the smoke.
- John Updike
Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.
- Billy Sunday
Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".
- Paul David Tripp
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
- Genesis 19:28
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
- Exodus 19:18
When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.
- Exodus 20:18
When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.
- Joshua 8:20
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.
- Joshua 8:21
The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
- Judges 20:38
But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.
- Judges 20:40
Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
- Job 41:20
But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
- Psalm 37:20