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Psalms 83:14
Psalms 83:14 is verse 14 of Psalms chapter 83, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
King James Version
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,
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Psalms 83:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
13 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
16 Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 30:33For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
Isaiah 33:11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
Isaiah 33:12The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
Isaiah 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
Isaiah 64:2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
Ezekiel 20:47Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
Ezekiel 20:48Then all people will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it will not be quenched.”
Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.