Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.
New American Standard Bible
And it is very
King James Version
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Holman Bible
Devouring fire precedes Him,
and a storm rages around Him.
International Standard Version
Our God has appeared and he has not been silent; a devouring fire blazed before him, and a mighty storm swirled around him.
American Standard Version
Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
Amplified
May our God come and not keep silent;
Fire devours before Him,
And around Him a mighty tempest rages.
Darby Translation
Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Julia Smith Translation
Our God shall come, and he will not be silent: a fire shall consume before him, and it stormed greatly round about him.
King James 2000
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous.
Modern King James verseion
Our God comes, and He is not silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy all around Him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Our God shall come, and not keep silence: there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.
NET Bible
Our God approaches and is not silent; consuming fire goes ahead of him and all around him a storm rages.
New Heart English Bible
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
The Emphasized Bible
Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire - before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:
Webster
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.
World English Bible
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
Youngs Literal Translation
Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
Themes
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » Who
Fire » As a symbol of the divine presence and power
Gathering » The lord gathering his saints
God » Fire, a consuming » As a symbol of the divine presence and power
Saints » The lord gathering his saints
The second coming of Christ » The purposes of, are to » Judge
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 50:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
God As Judge
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth. 3 Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him. 4 He calls to the heavens above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Cross References
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.
Leviticus 10:2
And there came forth fire from before LORD, and devoured them, and they died before LORD.
Numbers 16:35
And fire came forth from LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense.
Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mount quaked greatly.
Deuteronomy 9:3
Know therefore this day, that LORD thy God is he who goes over before thee as a devouring fire. He will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thee. So thou shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as LORD h
1 Kings 19:11-12
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before LORD. And, behold, LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before LORD, but LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind a
Psalm 18:7-15
Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
Psalm 48:14
For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide [even] to death.
Psalm 50:21
These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
Psalm 68:20
God is to us a God of deliverances, and escape from death belongs to lord LORD.
Psalm 83:1
O God, keep thou not silence. Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Psalm 96:13
before LORD, for he comes. For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.
Psalm 97:3-5
A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.
Isaiah 42:13-14
LORD will go forth as a mighty man. He will stir up [his] zeal like a man of war. He will cry, yea, he will shout aloud. He will do mightily against his enemies.
Isaiah 65:6-7
Behold, it is written before me. I will not keep silence, but will recompense. Yea, I will recompense into their bosom
Nahum 1:5-7
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.
Habakkuk 3:5
Before him went the pestilence. And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.
Malachi 3:2-3
But who can abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace, and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, shall be stubble. And the day that comes shall burn them up, says LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Matthew 3:12
Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard;
Hebrews 10:28-29
Any man who has disregarded the law of Moses dies without mercies from two or three witnesses.
Hebrews 12:18-21
For ye have not come to a mountain being felt, and which burned with fire, and to darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is also a consuming fire.
Revelation 22:20
He who testifies these things says, Yea, I come quickly. Truly. Yea, come, Lord Jesus!