Psalms 83:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,”
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BSBPD
“As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 83:14 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 30:33For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
- Isaiah 33:11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
- Isaiah 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
- Ezekiel 20:47Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
- Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
- Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
- Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
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