Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

As fire burns a forest,
as a flame blazes through mountains,

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;

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 Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind.
14 As fire burns a forest,
as a flame blazes through mountains,
15 so pursue them with Your tempest
and terrify them with Your storm.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22

For fire has been kindled because of My anger
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the land and its produce,
and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire
that consumes thorns and briers
and kindles the forest thickets
so that they go up in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 30:33

Indeed! Topheth has been ready
for the king for a long time now.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
with plenty of fire and wood.
The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone,
kindles it.

Isaiah 33:11-12

You will conceive chaff;
you will give birth to stubble.
Your breath is fire that will consume you.

Isaiah 64:1-2

If only You would tear the heavens open
and come down,
so that mountains would quake at Your presence

Ezekiel 20:47-48

and say to the forest there: Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God says: I am about to ignite a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The blazing flame will not be extinguished, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

Nahum 1:6

Who can withstand His indignation?
Who can endure His burning anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
even rocks are shattered before Him.

Nahum 1:10

For they will be consumed
like entangled thorns,
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.

Malachi 4:1

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.

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