Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.
New American Standard Bible
And
Coals were kindled by it.
King James Version
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Holman Bible
and consuming fire came from His mouth;
coals were set ablaze by it.
International Standard Version
In his anger smoke poured out of his nostrils, and consuming fire from his mouth; coals were lit from it.
American Standard Version
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
Amplified
Smoke went up from His nostrils,
And fire from His mouth devoured;
Coals were kindled by it.
Bible in Basic English
There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.
Darby Translation
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.
Julia Smith Translation
A smoke went up in his anger, and fire from his mouth will consume, and coals were kindled from it.
King James 2000
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Smoke went forth from his nose, and fire from his mouth consumed. Burning coals blazed from him.
Modern King James verseion
A smoke went up out of His nostrils, and fire devoured out of His mouth; coals were kindled by it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There went a smoke out in his presence, and a consuming fire out of his mouth, so that coals were kindled at it. {TYNDALE: Smoke went up out of his nostrils, and consuming fire out of his mouth, that coals were kindled of him.}
NET Bible
Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.
New Heart English Bible
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
The Emphasized Bible
There went up smoke in his nostrils, and, a fire out of his mouth, devoured, Live coals, were kindled from it:
Webster
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
World English Bible
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
Youngs Literal Translation
Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry. 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it. 9 He also bowed the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
Cross References
Psalm 21:9
Thou will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Genesis 19:28
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Leviticus 10:2
And there came forth fire from before LORD, and devoured them, and they died before LORD.
Numbers 11:1
And the people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of LORD. And when LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the outermost part of the camp.
Numbers 16:35
And fire came forth from LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense.
Deuteronomy 29:20
LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lay upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 29:23-24
[that] the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and i
Psalm 11:6
He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalm 50:3
Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.
Psalm 74:1
O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalm 104:32
who looks on the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
Psalm 144:5-6
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Daniel 7:10
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.
Amos 4:11
I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.
Nahum 1:5-6
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein.
Revelation 11:5
And if any man wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if any man wants to harm them, he must be killed this way.