Psalms 97:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 18:8 : 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
  • Dan 7:10 : 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
  • Hab 3:5 : 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.
  • 2 Pet 3:10-12 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 ¶ [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
  • Rev 11:5 : 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 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.
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
  • Deut 4:36 : 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
  • Deut 5:4 : 4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
  • Deut 5:23-24 : 23 ¶ And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, [even] all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
  • Deut 32:22 : 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.

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    2 Clouds and darkness [are] round about him: righteousness and judgment [are] the habitation of his throne.

  • 2 Sam 22:12-13
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    12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies.

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  • Hab 3:4-5
    2 verses
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    4 And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power.

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  • Ps 97:4-6
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    80%

    4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

    5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

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  • 2 Sam 22:9
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    9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

  • Ps 18:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

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  • Ps 18:11-13
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    11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.

    12 At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.

    13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.

  • Ps 50:3
    78%

    3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

  • Joel 2:3
    77%

    3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

  • Ps 83:14
    77%

    14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

  • Nah 1:5-6
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    5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

    6 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.

  • Isa 66:15
    75%

    15 ¶ For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

  • Isa 30:27
    75%

    27 ¶ Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning [with] his anger, and the burden [thereof is] heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

  • Job 41:21
    75%

    21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

  • Heb 12:29
    74%

    29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.

  • Isa 9:18
    74%

    18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.

  • Ps 29:7
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    7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.

  • Isa 64:2
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    2 As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!

  • Job 37:3
    74%

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  • Isa 30:30
    73%

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    9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

  • Ps 19:6
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  • Nah 1:8
    73%

    8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

  • Job 41:19
    72%

    19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out.

  • Job 20:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26 All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

    27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

  • Isa 10:17
    72%

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  • Ps 148:8
    72%

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    72%

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    2 verses
    72%

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  • Deut 9:3
    72%

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  • Mic 1:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

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    71%

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  • Heb 1:7
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    7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

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    71%

    7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, [which] consumed them as stubble.