Psalms 97:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

A fire goes before him and burns up his enemies all around.

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  • Ps 18:8 : 8 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth: coals were kindled by it.
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy around 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 comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will 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 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 in it shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness, 12 Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
  • Rev 11:5 : 5 And if anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies; and if anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this manner.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 And anyone 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 those who do not know God, and who do not obey 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, yes, the world and all who dwell in it. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? And who can endure 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 Your hand shall find all your enemies: your right hand shall find those who hate you. 9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall consume them.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 And you 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 you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he showed you his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
  • Deut 5:4 : 4 The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,
  • Deut 5:23-24 : 23 And it happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain burned with fire,) that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has shown 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 does talk with man, and he lives.
  • Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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  • Ps 97:2
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    2 Clouds and darkness surround him: righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

  • 2 Sam 22:12-13
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    12 And he made darkness canopies around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

    13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

  • Hab 3:4-5
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    4 His brightness was like the light; He had rays coming from His hand, and there was the hiding of His power.

    5 Before Him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at His feet.

  • Ps 97:4-6
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    4 His lightnings illuminated 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.

    6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

  • 2 Sam 22:9
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    9 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and fire from his mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it.

  • Ps 18:8-9
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    8 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth: coals were kindled by it.

    9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

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

    12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

    13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hailstones and coals of fire.

  • Ps 50:3
    78%

    3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy around Him.

  • Joel 2:3
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    3 A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14 As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets 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, yes, the world and all who dwell in it.

    6 Who can stand before his indignation? And who can endure 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
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    27 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire:

  • Job 41:21
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    21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

  • Heb 12:29
    74%

    29 For our God is a consuming fire.

  • Isa 9:18
    74%

    18 For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

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

  • Isa 64:2
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    2 As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

  • Job 37:3
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    3 He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

  • Isa 30:30
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    30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the coming down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, tempest, and hailstones.

  • Ps 21:9
    73%

    9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall consume them.

  • Ps 19:6
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    6 His going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

  • Lam 2:3
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    3 He has cut off in His fierce anger all the strength of Israel: He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy, and He burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

  • Nah 1:8
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    8 But with an overflowing flood he will make an utter end of its place, 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
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    72%

    26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains in his tent.

    27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

  • Isa 10:17
    72%

    17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

  • Ps 148:8
    72%

    8 Fire and hail, snow and vapor, stormy wind fulfilling His word;

  • Ps 104:4
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    4 Who makes His angels spirits; His ministers a flaming fire:

  • Ps 85:13
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    13 Righteousness shall go before Him, and shall set us in the way of His steps.

  • Jer 15:14
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    14 And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land you do not know: for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you.

  • Ps 68:1-2
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    1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him.

    2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

  • Deut 9:3
    72%

    3 Understand therefore today, that the LORD your God is the one who goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.

  • Mic 1:3-4
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    3 For behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.

    4 And the mountains will be molten under him, and the valleys will be split, as wax before the fire, and as waters that are poured down a steep place.

  • Ps 106:18
    71%

    18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

  • Heb 1:7
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    7 And of the angels He says, Who makes His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire.

  • Nah 1:3
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    3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

  • Exod 15:7
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    7 And in the greatness of your excellence you have overthrown those who rose against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them like stubble.