Psalms 97:3

World English Bible (2000)

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 18:8 : 8 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
  • Dan 7:10 : 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
  • Hab 3:5 : 5 Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "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 which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
  • Rev 11:5 : 5 If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
  • Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
  • Deut 4:36 : 36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
  • Deut 5:4 : 4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,
  • Deut 5:23-24 : 23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 and you said, "Behold, Yahweh 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 speak with man, and he lives.
  • Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

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    2 Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

  • 2 Sam 22:12-13
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    12 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

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  • Hab 3:4-5
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    4 His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

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  • Ps 97:4-6
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  • 2 Sam 22:9
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    9 Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.

  • Ps 18:8-9
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  • Ps 18:11-13
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    11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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  • Ps 50:3
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    3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is 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 as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14 As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

  • Nah 1:5-6
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    5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

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  • Isa 66:15
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    15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

  • Isa 30:27
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    27 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. 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. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

  • Heb 12:29
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    29 for our God is a consuming fire.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • Ps 29:7
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    7 Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

  • Isa 64:2
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    2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] 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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  • Isa 30:30
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    30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

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    9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

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    19 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

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    8 Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

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    14 I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.

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    3 Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

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    18 A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

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    7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.