Psalms 18:8

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Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

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  • Ps 21:9 : 9 You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 “May our God come and not be silent.” Consuming fire goes ahead of him and all around him a storm rages.
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 A well-written song by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?
  • Ps 104:32 : 32 He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.
  • Ps 144:5-6 : 5 O LORD, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder! 6 Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!
  • Dan 7:10 : 10 A river of fire was streaming forth and proceeding from his presence. Many thousands were ministering to him; many tens of thousands stood ready to serve him. The court convened and the books were opened.
  • Amos 4:11 : 11 “I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
  • Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste. 6 No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.
  • Rev 11:5 : 5 If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and completely consumes their enemies. If anyone wants to harm them, they must be killed this way.
  • Gen 19:28 : 28 He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.
  • Lev 10:2 : 2 So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.
  • Num 11:1 : 1 The Israelites Complain When the people complained, it displeased the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.
  • Num 16:35 : 35 Then a fire went out from the LORD and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.
  • Deut 29:20 : 20 The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory.
  • Deut 29:23-24 : 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger. 24 Then all the nations will ask,“Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?”
  • Ps 11:6 : 6 May he rain down burning coals and brimstone on the wicked! A whirlwind is what they deserve!

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  • 2 Sam 22:8-10
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    8The earth heaved and shook; the foundations of the sky trembled. They heaved because he was angry.

    9Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

    10He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

  • Job 41:19-21
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    19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth!

    20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.

    21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

  • Ps 18:7
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    7The earth heaved and shook; the roots of the mountains trembled; they heaved because he was angry.

  • Ps 18:12-13
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    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

    13The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted.

  • Nah 1:5-6
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    5The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

    6No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

  • 2 Sam 22:13-14
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    13From the brightness in front of him came coals of fire.

    14The LORD thundered from the sky; the Most High shouted loudly.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

  • Ps 97:3
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    3Fire goes before him; on every side it burns up his enemies.

  • Hab 3:5
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    5Plague will go before him; pestilence will march right behind him.

  • Ps 18:9
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    9He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

  • Deut 32:22
    77%

    22For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

  • Isa 30:27-28
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    27Look, the name of the LORD comes from a distant place in raging anger and awesome splendor. He speaks angrily and his word is like destructive fire.

    28His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

  • Ps 148:8
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    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

  • Exod 19:18
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    18Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

  • Ps 104:32
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    32He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

  • Rev 9:18
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    18A third of humanity was killed by these three plagues, that is, by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths.

  • Ps 144:5
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    5O LORD, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder!

  • Job 4:9
    75%

    9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

  • Ps 106:18
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    18Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked.

  • Mic 1:4
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    4The mountains will crumble beneath him; and the valleys will split apart, like wax before a fire, like water dumped down a steep slope.

  • Ps 50:3
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    3“May our God come and not be silent.” Consuming fire goes ahead of him and all around him a storm rages.

  • Ps 21:9
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    9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

  • Job 15:30
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    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • Isa 30:30
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    30The LORD will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

  • Isa 33:11
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    11You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

  • Isa 66:15
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    15For look, the LORD comes with fire, his chariots come like a windstorm, to reveal his raging anger, his battle cry, and his flaming arrows.

  • Heb 12:29
    73%

    29For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

  • 2 Sam 22:16
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    16The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

  • Isa 64:2
    73%

    2(64:1) As when fire ignites dry wood, or fire makes water boil, let your adversaries know who you are, and may the nations shake at your presence!

  • 1 Kgs 18:38
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    38Then fire from the LORD fell from the sky. It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.

  • Ps 2:5
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    5Then he angrily speaks to them and terrifies them in his rage, saying,

  • Ps 78:21
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    21When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

  • Ps 18:15
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    15The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, LORD, by the powerful breath from your nose.

  • Ps 29:7
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    7The LORD’s shout strikes with flaming fire.

  • Ps 68:2
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    2As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

  • Ps 140:10
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    10May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

  • Isa 34:9
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    9Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

  • Ps 80:16
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    16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

  • Job 18:4
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    4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

  • Job 20:26
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    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

  • Ps 11:6
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    6May he rain down burning coals and brimstone on the wicked! A whirlwind is what they deserve!