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Psalms 83:14
14Pursue them with your storms, and terrify them with your windstorms
Psalms 83:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
- New International Version (NIV)As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
- English Standard Version (ESV)As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
- New King James Version (NKJV)As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
Context of Psalms 83:14
12They said, “Let’s take God’s pasturelands for ourselves.” 13O my God, blow them away like tumbleweeds, like husks in the wind. Pursue them with your storms, and terrify them with your windstorms 15the way fire burns a forest and flames set mountains on fire. 16Let their faces blush with shame, O Lord, so that they must look to you for help.
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כְּאֵ֥שׁ תִּבְעַר־יָ֑עַר וּ֝כְלֶהָבָ֗ה תְּלַהֵ֥ט הָרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 83:14
- Isaiah 30:33Topheth was prepared long ago. It was made ready for the king. It was made deep and wide and piled high with plenty of burning logs. The Lord’s breath will be like a flood of burning sulfur, setting it on fire.
- Isaiah 33:11You will be pregnant with hay. You will give birth to straw. Your breath will be a fire which will burn you up.
- Isaiah 64:1If only you would split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would quake at your presence.
- Ezekiel 20:47Tell the forest in the Negev, ‘Listen to the Lord’s word. This is what the Almighty Lord says: I am about to set fire to you to destroy all your green trees and all your dry trees. The blazing fire will not be put out. It will burn the whole land from the south to the north.
- Malachi 4:1“Certainly the day is coming! It will burn like a furnace. All arrogant people and all evildoers will be ⌞like⌟ straw. The day that is coming will burn them up completely,” says the Lord of Armies. “It won’t leave a single root or branch.
- Deuteronomy 32:22My anger has started a fire that will burn to the depths of hell. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire.
- Nahum 1:6Who can stand in the presence of his rage? Who can oppose his burning anger? He pours out his rage like fire and smashes the rocky cliffs.
Commentaries on Psalms 83:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The flame setteth the mountains on fire - This may refer to the burning of the straw and chaff, after the grain was threshed and winnowed. And as their threshing-floors were situated often on the hills or mountains, to take the advantage of the wind, the setting the mountains on fire may refer to the burning of the chaff, etc., in those places. Let them be like stubble driven away by the wind, and burnt by the fire.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14As the fire burneth a wood - The same idea is here presented under another form. No image of desolation is more fearful than that of fire raging in a forest; or of fire on the mountains. As trees and shrubs and grass fall before such a flame, so the prayer is, that they who had combined against the people of God might be swept away by his just displeasure.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 9-18 All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their enemies like a wheel; unsettled in all their counsels and resolves. Not only let them be driven away as stubble, but burnt as stubble. And this will be the end of wicked men. Let them be made to fear thy name, and perhaps that will bring them to seek thy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-15fire … flame … tempest: These images describe how God appears when he brings judgment (see Isaiah 29:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. Pursue them to an utter destruction.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 83
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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