Parallel Verses

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,

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 My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. 14 Like fire that burns the forest
And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,
15 pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22

My anger has started a fire that will burn into the depths of the grave. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Isaiah 9:18

This wickedness is like a brushfire. It burns not only briers and thorns but the forests, too. It sends up vast clouds of smoke.

Isaiah 30:33

Topheth was prepared long ago. It was made ready for the king. It was made deep and wide and piled high with plenty of burning logs. Jehovah's breath will be like a flood of burning sulfur, setting it on fire.

Isaiah 33:11-12

You conceive chaff and you give birth to straw. Your strength will be in vain. Fire will consume you.

Isaiah 64:1-2

O that you would split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would quake at your presence.

Ezekiel 20:47-48

Tell the forest in the Negev: 'Listen to the word of Jehovah. This is what the Lord Jehovah says: I am about to set fire to you to destroy all your green trees and all your dry trees. The blazing fire will not be put out. It will burn the whole land from the south to the north.

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand before his indignation (displeasure)? Who can resist (withstand) (endure) the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken to pieces by him.

Nahum 1:10

Entangled like thorns and drunken from drink, they are consumed like dry stubble.

Malachi 4:1

Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: The day is coming when all arrogant and evil people will burn like stubble. On that day they will burn up and there will be nothing left of them, either root or bough.

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