Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Like as a fire that burneth up the wood, and as the flame that consumeth the mountains.

New American Standard Bible

Like fire that burns the forest
And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

King James Version

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

Holman Bible

As fire burns a forest,
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.

American Standard Version

As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth 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,

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

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer Against Enemies

13 O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind. 14 Like as a fire that burneth up the wood, and as the flame that consumeth the mountains. 15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22

For fire is kindled in my wrath: and shall burn unto the bottom of hell; and shall consume the earth with her increase; and set afire the bottoms of the mountains.

Isaiah 9:18

For the ungodly burn, as a fire in the briers and thorns: And as it were out of a fire in a wood or a red bush, so ascendeth the smoke of their pride.

Isaiah 30:33

For the fire of pain is ordained from the beginning: yea, even for kings it is prepared. This hath the LORD set in the deep, and made it wide: the burning whereof is fire and much wood. The breath of the LORD, which is a river of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Isaiah 33:11-12

Ye shall conceive stubble, and bear straw, and your spirit shall be the fire, that it may consume you.

Isaiah 64:1-2

O that thou wouldest cleave the heaven in sunder, and come down: that the mountains might melt away at thy presence,

Ezekiel 20:47-48

and say to the wood toward the south, 'Hear the word of the LORD, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, that shall consume thee green trees with the dry. No man shall be able to quench his flame, but all that looketh from the south to the north shall be burnt therein.

Nahum 1:6

Who may endure before his wrath? Or who is able to abide his grim displeasure? His anger taketh on like fire, and the hard rocks burst in sunder before him.

Nahum 1:10

For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.

Malachi 4:1

For mark, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven: and all the proud, yea and all such as do wickedness, shall be straw: and the day that is for to come, shall burn them up, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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