Parallel Verses
Amplified
Like fire consumes the forest,
And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,
New American Standard Bible
And like a flame that
King James Version
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
Holman Bible
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,
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
Fausets
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 83:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against Enemies
13
O my God, make them like
Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].
Like fire consumes the forest,
And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,
So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22
‘For a fire is kindled by My anger,
And it burns to the depths of Sheol (the place of the dead, the nether world),
It devours the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire;
It consumes briars and thorns,
It even sets the forest thickets ablaze;
And it swirls upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 30:33
For
Indeed, it has been prepared for the [Assyrian] king.
He has made it deep and wide,
A pit of fire with plenty of wood;
The breath of the Lord, like a river of brimstone (blazing sulfur), kindles and fans it.
Isaiah 33:11-12
“You have conceived dried grass, you will give birth to stubble;
My breath is a fire that will consume you.
Isaiah 64:1-2
That the mountains might quake at Your presence—
Ezekiel 20:47-48
and say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every one of your green trees, as well as every one of your dry trees. The blazing flame will not be quenched and the whole surface from the south to the north will be burned by it.
Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before His indignation [His great wrath]?
And who can stand up and endure the fierceness of His anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire
And the rocks are destroyed by Him.
Nahum 1:10
Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel],
And like those drowned in drunkenness,
Like stubble completely withered and dry [in the day of the Lord’s wrath].
Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant (proud, self-righteous, haughty), and every evildoer shall be stubble; and the day that is coming shall set them on fire,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.