Psalms 97:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 18:8 : 8 Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Hab 3:5 : 5 Plague will go before him; pestilence will march right behind him.
  • 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.
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is indeed a devouring fire.
  • 2 Pet 3:10-12 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, the heavens will disappear with a horrific noise, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze, and the earth and every deed done on it will be laid bare. 11 Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness, 12 while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God? Because of this day, the heavens will be burned up and dissolve, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze!
  • 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.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  • 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.
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 You prevail over all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you. 9 You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.
  • Deut 4:36 : 36 From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.
  • Deut 5:4 : 4 The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.
  • Deut 5:23-24 : 23 Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me. 24 You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 97:2
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    2Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.

  • 2 Sam 22:12-13
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    82%

    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

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

  • Hab 3:4-5
    2 verses
    82%

    4His brightness will be as lightning; a two-pronged lightning bolt flashing from his hand. This is the outward display of his power.

    5Plague will go before him; pestilence will march right behind him.

  • Ps 97:4-6
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    4His lightning bolts light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

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

    6The sky declares his justice, and all the nations see his splendor.

  • 2 Sam 22:9
    79%

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

  • Ps 18:8-9
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    8Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

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

  • Ps 18:11-13
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    78%

    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

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

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

  • Ps 50:3
    78%

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

  • Joel 2:3
    77%

    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!

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

  • Nah 1:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Isa 66:15
    75%

    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.

  • Isa 30:27
    75%

    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.

  • Job 41:21
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    21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

  • Heb 12:29
    74%

    29For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

  • Isa 9:18
    74%

    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 29:7
    74%

    7The LORD’s shout strikes with flaming fire.

  • Isa 64:2
    74%

    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!

  • Job 37:3
    74%

    3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

  • Isa 30:30
    73%

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

  • Ps 21:9
    73%

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

  • Ps 19:6
    73%

    6It emerges from the distant horizon, and goes from one end of the sky to the other; nothing can escape its heat.

  • Lam 2:3
    73%

    3ג(Gimel) In fierce anger he destroyed the whole army of Israel. He withdrew his right hand as the enemy attacked. He was like a raging fire in the land of Jacob; it consumed everything around it.

  • Nah 1:8
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    8But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

  • Job 41:19
    72%

    19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth!

  • Job 20:26-27
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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.

    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

  • Isa 10:17
    72%

    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.

  • Ps 148:8
    72%

    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

  • Ps 104:4
    72%

    4He makes the winds his messengers, and the flaming fire his attendant.

  • Ps 85:13
    72%

    13Deliverance goes before him, and prepares a pathway for him.

  • Jer 15:14
    72%

    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.”

  • Ps 68:1-2
    2 verses
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    1For the music director; by David, a psalm, a song. God springs into action! His enemies scatter; his adversaries run from him.

    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.

  • Deut 9:3
    72%

    3Understand today that the LORD your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you.

  • Mic 1:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Look, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling place! He will descend and march on the earth’s mountaintops!

    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 106:18
    71%

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

  • Ps 58:9
    71%

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

  • Heb 1:7
    71%

    7And he says of the angels,“He makes his angels winds and his ministers a flame of fire,”

  • Nah 1:3
    71%

    3The LORD is slow to anger but great in power; the LORD will certainly not allow the wicked to go unpunished.The Divine Warrior Destroys His Enemies but Protects His People He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet.

  • Exod 15:7
    71%

    7In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.