Psalms 83:14

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Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

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  • Deut 32:22 : 22 For 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 9:18 : 18 For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.
  • Isa 30:33 : 33 For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The LORD’s breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.
  • Isa 33:11-12 : 11 You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you. 12 The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.
  • Isa 64:1-2 : 1 (63:19b) If only you would tear apart the sky and come down! The mountains would tremble before you! 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!
  • Ezek 20:47-48 : 47 and say to the scrub land of the Negev,‘Listen to the LORD’s message: This is what the Sovereign LORD has said: Look here, I am about to start a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it. 48 And everyone will see that I, the LORD, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”
  • Nah 1:6 : 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.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 (3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.

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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.

  • 13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!

  • 15chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

    12The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 13From the brightness in front of him came coals of fire.

  • 14Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.

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

  • 8Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

  • 29For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 19To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.

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

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

  • Ps 148:8-9
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    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

    9you mountains and all you hills, you fruit trees and all you cedars,

  • 3Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness– for nothing escapes them!

  • 14Because of that, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, said to me,“Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.”

  • 4No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

  • 31The powerful will be like a thread of yarn, their deeds like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put out the fire.

  • 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.

  • 14But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’ says the LORD.‘I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.’”

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

  • 47and say to the scrub land of the Negev,‘Listen to the LORD’s message: This is what the Sovereign LORD has said: Look here, I am about to start a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.

  • 20‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

  • 5They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.

  • 10Pile up the wood, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

  • 12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

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

  • Ezek 15:6-7
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    6“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire– so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem as fuel.

    7I will set my face against them– although they have escaped from the fire, the fire will still consume them! Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

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

  • 3For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

  • 14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”

  • 12For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.

  • 4Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.

  • 18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • 17The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One will become a flame; it will burn and consume the Assyrian king’s briers and his thorns in one day.

  • 5The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of the whole earth.

  • 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.

  • 1The History and Future of Judah’s Wicked Kings Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars.

  • 9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

  • 12They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.