Psalm 83:14
New International Version
As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

New Living Translation
As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

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

Berean Standard Bible
As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

King James Bible
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

New King James Version
As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,

New American Standard Bible
Like fire that burns the forest, And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

NASB 1995
Like fire that burns the forest And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

NASB 1977
Like fire that burns the forest, And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Legacy Standard Bible
Like fire that burns the forest And like a flame that burns up the mountains,

Amplified Bible
Like fire consumes the forest, And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,

Christian Standard Bible
As fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes through mountains,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes through mountains,

American Standard Version
As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Like fire that is left in a forest like a flame that burns the mountains.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;

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

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

English Revised Version
As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Pursue them with your storms, and terrify them with your windstorms

Good News Translation
As fire burns the forest, as flames set the hills on fire,

International Standard Version
Like a fire burning a forest, and a flame setting mountains ablaze.

JPS Tanakh 1917
As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze;

Literal Standard Version
As a fire burns a forest, | And as a flame sets hills on fire,

Majority Standard Bible
As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

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

NET Bible
Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

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

New Heart English Bible
As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Webster's Bible Translation
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

World English Bible
As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Young's Literal Translation
As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

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Context
Do Not Be Still, O God
13Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind. 14As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze, 15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.…

Cross References
Exodus 19:18
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.

Deuteronomy 32:22
For 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.

Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.


Treasury of Scripture

As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

as the fire

Isaiah 30:33
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Isaiah 33:11,12
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you…

Isaiah 64:1,2
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, …

the flame

Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Nahum 1:6,10
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him…

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Psalm 83
1. A complaint to God of the enemies conspiracies
9. A prayer against those who oppress the Church














(14, 15) These verses are rightly taken together. The figure occurs in Isaiah 10:17-18 (comp. Zechariah 12:6), but there as a metaphor; here as a simile. "Before the rains came the whole mountain side was in a blaze. Thorns and briars grow so luxuriantly here that they must be burned off always before the plough can operate. The peasants watch for a high wind, and then the fire catches easily, and spreads with great rapidity" (Thomson, Land and Book, p. 341). The mountains are pre-eminently the pastures. (Comp. Psalm 50:10; Psalm 147:8.)

Verse 14. - As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire. Cause them, i.e., to consume away and perish, as a burning forest, or as blazing brushwood on a mountainside.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
As fire
כְּאֵ֥שׁ (kə·’êš)
Preposition-k | Noun - common singular
Strong's 784: A fire

consumes
תִּבְעַר־ (tiḇ·‘ar-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1197: To kindle, consume, to be, brutish

a forest,
יָ֑עַר (yā·‘ar)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3293: A copse of bushes, a forest, honey in the comb

as a flame
וּ֝כְלֶהָבָ֗ה (ū·ḵə·le·hā·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3852: A flash, a sharply polished blade, point of a, weapon

sets
תְּלַהֵ֥ט (tə·la·hêṭ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3857: To blaze up, flame

the mountains {ablaze},
הָרִֽים׃ (hā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country


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