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The LORD Is My Rock

Psalms 18:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
KJV
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.out of his nostrils: Heb. by his, etc
WEB
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
ASV
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
LSV
Smoke has gone up from His nostrils, || And fire from His mouth consumes, || Coals have been kindled by it.
YLT
Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.
DBY
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.
DRC17:9
There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.
GNV
Smoke went out at his nostrels, and a consuming fire out of his mouth: coales were kindled thereat.
JPS18:9
Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.
LXXE17:9
There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.

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Original-language editions

WLC18:9
עָ֘לָ֤ה עָשָׁ֨ן ׀ בְּאַפּ֗וֹ וְאֵשׁ־מִפִּ֥יו תֹּאכֵ֑ל גֶּ֝חָלִ֗ים בָּעֲר֥וּ מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃KJV:Ps.18.8
LXX-Br17:9
Ἀνέβη καπνὸς ἐν ὀργῇ αὐτοῦ, καὶ πῦρ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ κατεφλόγισεν, ἄνθρακες ἀνήφθησαν ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 21:9You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.
  • Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
  • Nahum 1:5–6The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers. Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out…
  • Amos 4:11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  • Leviticus 10:2So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died in the presence of the LORD.
  • Numbers 16:35And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
  • Daniel 7:10A river of fire was flowing, coming out from His presence. Thousands upon thousands attended Him, and myriads upon myriads stood before Him. The court was convened, and the books were opened.
  • Psalms 144:5–6Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke. Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
  • Genesis 19:28He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
  • Psalms 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
  • Psalms 104:32He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
  • Deuteronomy 29:23–24All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce…
  • Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
  • Psalms 74:1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
  • Revelation 11:5If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed.
  • Numbers 11:1Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

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