Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,
New American Standard Bible
And like a flame that
King James Version
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
Holman Bible
as a flame blazes through mountains,
International Standard Version
Like a fire burning a forest, and a flame setting mountains ablaze.
A Conservative Version
as the fire that burns the forest, and as the flame that sets the mountains on fire.
Amplified
Like fire consumes the forest,
And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,
Darby Translation
As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
Julia Smith Translation
As fire will burn the forest, and as the flame will cause the mountains to burn.
King James 2000
As the fire burns wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;
Lexham Expanded Bible
As fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets afire mountains,
Modern King James verseion
As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as a fire that burneth up the wood, and as the flame that consumeth the mountains.
NET Bible
Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,
New Heart English Bible
As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
The Emphasized Bible
As a fire burneth a forest, - And as a flame setteth mountains ablaze,
Webster
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
World English Bible
As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
Youngs Literal Translation
As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,
References
Fausets
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 83:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against Enemies
13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire, 15 So pursue them with thy tempest, And terrify them with thy storm.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 30:33
For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Isaiah 33:11-12
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
Isaiah 64:1-2
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
Ezekiel 20:47-48
and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.
Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
Nahum 1:10
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.