Psalm 83:14 {82:15}
Good News Translation
As fire burns the forest, as flames set the hills on fire,

New Revised Standard Version
As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

Contemporary English Version
Just as flames destroy forests on the mountains,

New American Bible
As a fire raging through a forest, a flame setting mountains ablaze,

Douay-Rheims Bible
As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

as the fire

Isaiah 30:33 For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.

Isaiah 33:11,12 You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you. . . .

Isaiah 64:1,2 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence. . . .

Ezekiel 20:47,48 And say to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and will burn in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame of the fire shall not be quenched: and every face shall be burned in it, from the south even to the north. . . .

Malachi 4:1 For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.

the flame

Deuteronomy 32:22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

Nahum 1:6,10 Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shall resist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured out like fire: and the rocks are melted by him. . . .

Context
Do Not Be Still, O God
13O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind. 14As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:15So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.…
Cross References
Exodus 19:18
And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Deuteronomy 32:22
A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the brier and the thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of the forest, and it shall be wrapped up in smoke ascending on high.

Psalm 83:13
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