Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous.

New American Standard Bible

May our God come and not keep silence;
Fire devours before Him,
And it is very tempestuous around Him.

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

Our God is coming; He will not be silent!
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.

A Conservative Version

Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about 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.

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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

God As Judge

2 From Zion, [the] perfection of beauty, God shines forth. 3 Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous. 4 He summons the heavens above and the earth that he might judge his people:

Cross References

Daniel 7:10

A stream of fire issued forth and flowed {from his presence}; thousands [upon] thousands served him and ten thousand [upon] ten thousand stood before him. The judge sat, and [the] books were opened.

Leviticus 10:2

So fire went out {from before} Yahweh, and it consumed them so that they died {before} Yahweh.

Numbers 16:35

And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense.

Exodus 19:18

And Mount Sinai was all wrapped in smoke because Yahweh went down on it in the fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.

Deuteronomy 9:3

You should know {today} that Yahweh your God is the one crossing {ahead of you} [as] a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so you will dispossess them, and you will destroy them quickly, {just as} Yahweh {promised} you.

1 Kings 19:11-12

He said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh." Suddenly Yahweh was passing by, with a great and strong wind ripping the mountains and crushing rocks before Yahweh; [but] Yahweh [was] not in the wind. After the wind, [there was] an earthquake; [but] Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

Psalm 18:7-15

Then the earth shook and quaked, and [the] foundations of [the] mountains trembled, and they staggered because he was angry.

Psalm 48:14

that this [is] God, our God forever and ever. {He himself} will guide us until death.

Psalm 50:21

These [things] you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present [an argument] before your eyes.

Psalm 68:20

Our God [is] a God of deliverances, and to [the] Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.

Psalm 83:1

O God, do not rest [silently]. Do not keep silent or be still, O God.

Psalm 96:13

before Yahweh, for he is coming; for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge [the] world with righteousness, and [the] peoples with his faithfulness.

Psalm 97:3-5

Fire goes before him, and devours his enemies round about.

Isaiah 42:13-14

Yahweh goes forth like a mighty warrior; he stirs up zeal like a man of war. He raises the war cry, indeed he raises the battle shout; he prevails against his foes.

Isaiah 65:6-7

Look! [It] is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay; and I will repay in the fold of their garment

Nahum 1:5-7

Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart. The earth heaves before him-- the world and all her inhabitants.

Habakkuk 3:5

Before him went Disease, and Pestilence went out at his feet.

Malachi 3:2-3

And who [can] endure the day of his coming? And who [is] the one who can stand {when he appears}? For he [is] like a refiner's fire, like launderers' alkali.

Malachi 4:1

"For look! The day [is] about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every {evildoer} will be stubble. The coming day will consume them," says Yahweh of hosts. "It will not leave behind for them root or branch.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing shovel [is] in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

2 Thessalonians 1:8-9

with burning flame giving punishment to those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

Hebrews 2:3

how will we escape [if we] neglect so great a salvation which had [its] beginning [when it] was spoken through the Lord [and] was confirmed to us by those who heard,

Hebrews 10:28-29

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 12:18-21

For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind,

Hebrews 12:29

For indeed our God [is] a consuming fire.

Revelation 22:20

The one who testifies about these [things] says, "Yes, I am coming quickly!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!

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