Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

as the fire that burns the forest, and as the flame that sets the mountains on fire.

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.

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,

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

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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 burns the forest, and as the flame that sets 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 my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yea, it kindles 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, it is made ready for the king. He has made it deep and large. The pile of it is fire and much wood. The breath of LORD kindles it, like a stream of brimstone.

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 would rend the heavens, that thou would 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 LORD. Thus says lord LORD: 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 al

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 apart 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 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.

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