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Psalms 83:15
15As a fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
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
13who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.” 14My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. As a fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, 16so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm. 17Cover their faces with shame, so they may seek Your Name—Adonai.
Read all of Psalms 83Psalms 83:15 word by word
כֵּ֭ן תִּרְדְּפֵ֣ם בְּסַעֲרֶ֑ךָ וּבְסוּפָתְךָ֥ תְבַהֲלֵֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 83:15
- Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fire, brimstone and scorching wind as the portion of their cup!
- Psalms 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire is devouring before Him, and it storms around Him mightily.
- Psalms 58:9Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.
- Job 9:17He who crushes me with a storm and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
- Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm sweeps him away at night.
- Isaiah 28:17But I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line. Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and water will overflow the hiding place.
- Isaiah 30:30Adonai will make His glorious voice heard, and reveal His arm descending with fierce fury in a consuming fire, in cloudburst, rainstorm and hailstones.
- Ezekiel 13:11Say to those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. There will be a down-pouring rain, and on you great hailstones will fall, and a storm wind will break out.
- Matthew 7:27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
- Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and 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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