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Psalms 83:15
15the way fire burns a forest and flames set mountains on fire.
Psalms 83:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
- New International Version (NIV)so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
- English Standard Version (ESV)so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
- New King James Version (NKJV)So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.
Context of Psalms 83:15
13O my God, blow them away like tumbleweeds, like husks in the wind. 14Pursue them with your storms, and terrify them with your windstorms the 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. 17Let them be put to shame and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace
Read all of Psalms 83Psalms 83:15 word by word
כֵּ֭ן תִּרְדְּפֵ֣ם בְּסַעֲרֶ֑ךָ וּבְסוּפָתְךָ֥ תְבַהֲלֵֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 83:15
- Psalms 11:6He rains down fire and burning sulfur upon wicked people. He makes them drink from a cup filled with scorching wind.
- Psalms 50:3Our God will come and will not remain silent. A devouring fire is in front of him and a raging storm around him.
- Psalms 58:9Let ⌞God⌟ sweep them away faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.
- Job 9:17He would knock me down with a storm and bruise me without a reason.
- Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like a flood. A windstorm snatches him away at night.
- Isaiah 28:17I will make justice a measuring line and righteousness a plumb line. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and floodwaters will wash away your hiding place.
- Isaiah 30:30The Lord will make his majestic voice heard. He will come down with all his might, with furious anger, with fire storms, windstorms, rainstorms, and hailstones.
- Ezekiel 13:11Tell those who cover up the wall with paint that their wall will fall down. Rain will pour down, hailstones will fall on it, and stormy winds will break it to pieces.
- Matthew 7:27Rain poured, and floods came. Winds blew and struck that house. It collapsed, and the result was a total disaster.”
- Hebrews 12:18You have not come to something that you can feel, to a blazing fire, to darkness, to gloom, to a storm,
Commentaries on Psalms 83:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15So persecute them - In this and the two following verses we find several awful execrations; and all this seems to be done in reference to that ancient custom, "pouring execrations on an enemy previously to battle." Of this I have already given specimens in this work; and the reader is particularly requested to refer to the case of Balaam being hired by the king of Moab to curse Israel previously to his intended attack: see the note on Numbers 22:6, where…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15So persecute them - So pursue them; so follow them up. The word “persecute” is now used in a somewhat different sense, as denoting pain or suffering inflicted on account of religious opinion. It means here simply to pursue. With thy tempest - With the expressions of thy displeasure; with punishment which may be compared with the fury of a storm. And make them afraid with thy storm - Or, Make them afraid, terrify them, so that they will flee away. As all…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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