诗篇 83:14

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

火怎樣焚燒樹林，火燄怎樣燃燒群山，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
火 怎 样 焚 烧 树 林 ， 火 焰 怎 样 烧 着 山 岭 ，

Contextual Overview

⁹ God, do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. ¹⁰ They died at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground. ¹¹ Do to their important leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb. Do to their princes what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna. ¹² They said, "Let's take for ourselves the pasturelands that belong to God." ¹³ My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff blown away by the wind. ¹⁴ Be like a fire that burns a forest or like flames that blaze through the hills. ¹⁵ Chase them with your storm, and frighten them with your wind. ¹⁶ Cover them with shame. Then people will look for you, Lord . ¹⁷ Make them afraid and ashamed forever. Disgrace them and destroy them. ¹⁸ Then they will know that you are the Lord , that only you are God Most High over all the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

As the fire: Isaiah 30:33, Isaiah 33:11, Isaiah 33:12, Isaiah 64:1, Isaiah 64:2, Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 20:48, Malachi 4:1

the flame: Deuteronomy 32:22, Nahum 1:6, Nahum 1:10

Reciprocal: Psalms 118:12 - quenched Isaiah 10:17 - for a flame

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the fire burneth the wood,.... Or "forest" m; which is sometimes done purposely, and sometimes through carelessness, as Virgil n observes; and which is done very easily and swiftly, when fire is set to it; even all the trees of it, great and small, to which an army is sometimes compared, Isaiah 10:18, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; either the mountains themselves, as Etna, Vesuvius, and others; or rather the grass and trees that grow upon them, smitten by lightning from heaven, which may be meant by the flame: in like manner it is wished that the fire and flame of divine wrath would consume the confederate enemies of Israel, above mentioned; as wicked men are but as trees of the forest, and the grass of the mountains, or as thorns and briers, to the wrath of God, which is poured out as fire, and is signified by everlasting burnings.

m יער "sylvam", Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c. n Georgic. l. 2. v. 310.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As the fire burneth a wood ... - The same idea is here presented under another form. No image of desolation is more fearful than that of fire raging in a forest; or of fire on the mountains. As trees and shrubs and grass fall before such a flame, so the prayer is, that they who had combined against the people of God might be swept away by his just displeasure.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 83:14. The flame setteth the mountains on fire — This may refer to the burning of the straw and chaff, after the grain was threshed and winnowed. And as their threshing-floors were situated often on the hills or mountains, to take the advantage of the wind, the setting the mountains on fire may refer to the burning of the chaff, &c., in those places. Let them be like stubble driven away by the wind, and burnt by the fire.