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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 97:3

Fire shall go before him, and burn up his enemies round about.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Jesus, the Christ;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Fire;   God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fire;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Nature, Natural;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lightning;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hope;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Glory;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 1;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Fire spreads ahead of him and burns up all his foes.
English Revised Version
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his adversaries round about.
Update Bible Version
A fire goes before him, And burns up his adversaries round about.
New Century Version
A fire goes before him and burns up his enemies all around.
New English Translation
Fire goes before him; on every side it burns up his enemies.
Webster's Bible Translation
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
World English Bible
A fire goes before him, And burns up his adversaries on every side.
Amplified Bible
Fire goes before Him And burns up His adversaries on all sides.
English Standard Version
Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fier schal go bifore him; and schal enflawme hise enemyes in cumpas.
Berean Standard Bible
Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.
Contemporary English Version
Fire leaps from his throne, destroying his enemies,
American Standard Version
A fire goeth before him, And burneth up his adversaries round about.
Bible in Basic English
Fire goes before him, burning up all those who are against him round about.
Complete Jewish Bible
Fire goes before him, setting ablaze his foes on every side.
Darby Translation
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his adversaries round about.
Easy-to-Read Version
Fire goes before him and destroys his enemies.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A fire goeth before Him, and burneth up His adversaries round about.
King James Version (1611)
A fire goeth before him: and burneth vp his enemies round about.
New Life Bible
Fire goes before Him and burns up those who hate Him on every side.
New Revised Standard
Fire goes before him, and consumes his adversaries on every side.
Geneva Bible (1587)
There shall goe a fire before him, & burne vp his enemies round about.
George Lamsa Translation
Fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies round about.
Good News Translation
Fire goes in front of him and burns up his enemies around him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Fire, before him, proceedeth, That it may consume, round about, his adversaries.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(96-3) A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.
Revised Standard Version
Fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
There goeth a fire before his face: and burneth his enemies on euery syde.
Christian Standard Bible®
Fire goes before himand burns up his foes on every side.
Hebrew Names Version
A fire goes before him, And burns up his adversaries on every side.
King James Version
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
Lexham English Bible
Fire goes before him, and devours his enemies round about.
Literal Translation
A fire goes before Him and burns up His enemies all around.
Young's Literal Translation
Fire before Him goeth, And burneth round about His adversaries.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There goeth a fyre before him, to burne vp his enemies on euery syde.
THE MESSAGE
Fire blazes out before him, Flaming high up the craggy mountains.
New American Standard Bible
Fire goes before Him And burns up His enemies all around.
New King James Version
A fire goes before Him, And burns up His enemies round about.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Fire goes before Him And burns up His adversaries round about.
Legacy Standard Bible
Fire goes before HimAnd burns up His adversaries all around.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord reigns, let the earth exult, let many islands rejoice. 2 Cloud, and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne. 3 Fire shall go before him, and burn up his enemies round about. 4 His lightnings appeared to the world; the earth saw, and trembled. 5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. 6 The heavens have declared his righteousness, and all the people have seen his glory. 7 Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; worship him, all ye his angels.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 18:8, Psalms 21:8, Psalms 21:9, Psalms 50:3, Deuteronomy 4:11, Deuteronomy 4:36, Deuteronomy 5:4, Deuteronomy 5:23, Deuteronomy 5:24, Deuteronomy 32:22, Daniel 7:10, Nahum 1:5, Nahum 1:6, Habakkuk 3:5, Malachi 4:1, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, Hebrews 12:29, 2 Peter 3:10-12, Revelation 11:5, Revelation 20:15

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 7:10 - thundered 2 Samuel 22:9 - went Psalms 18:12 - At the Isaiah 10:17 - devour Isaiah 30:30 - the flame Isaiah 66:15 - the Lord Ezekiel 1:4 - a great Revelation 20:9 - and fire

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A fire goeth before him, c,] Not the fiery law, which went forth from his right hand on Mount Sinai but rather his Gospel, which, as it enlightens, warms, comforts, and refreshes his people, searches, torments, and destroys his enemies, and is the savour of death unto death to them; see Jeremiah 23:29. Some apply this to the gifts of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, signified by cloven tongues of fire; but then no such effect followed as mentioned in the next clause: it seems best to interpret it of his wrath, which, like fire, was poured out to the uttermost on the Jews, for their disbelief and rejection of him; they would not have him to reign over them; they despised his Gospel, and slew his servants; wherefore he sent the Roman armies to them, who destroyed those murderers, and burnt their city,

Matthew 22:7, this will be also verified in the second coming of Christ, who will descend in flaming fire, and the earth will be burnt up, and all that is therein, 2 Thessalonians 1:7, some Jewish writers interpret this of the war of Gog and Magog, in Ezekiel, which they suppose still future; as, when it is, fire will be sent and rained upon them, Ezekiel 38:22, but may be better applied to the Gog and Magog in Revelation 20:8

and burneth up his enemies round about; so that none can escape: this was true of the Jewish nation, who were burnt up; so that there was not left root nor branch in it, Malachi 4:1, and will be true of the wicked, at the general conflagration of the world, upon Christ's second coming; and of the Gog and Magog army, after the resurrection.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A fire goeth before him - See Psalms 18:13, note; Psalms 50:3, note.

And burneth up his enemies round about - Is especially directed against his foes. That is, he manifests himself as a just God, inflicting vengeance on his enemies. He comes to reign, and in his reign all his foes will be destroyed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 97:3. A fire goeth before him — Literally, this and the following verse may refer to the electric fluid, or to manifestations of the Divine displeasure, in which, by means of ethereal fire, God consumed his enemies. But fire is generally represented as an accompaniment of the appearances of the Supreme Being. He appeared on Mount Sinai in the midst of fire, thunder, and lightnings, Exodus 19:16-18. Daniel, Daniel 7:9; Daniel 7:10, represents the Sovereign Judge as being on a throne which was a fiery flame, and the wheels of his chariot like burning fire; and a fiery stream issuing from it, and coming forth from before him. St. Paul tells us (2 Thessalonians 1:8) that the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire; and St. Peter, (2 Peter 3:7; 2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:11,) that when the Lord shall come to judgment the heavens and the earth shall be destroyed by fire, the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, the elements melt with fervent heat, and the earth and its works be burnt up. Here then, will appear, -

"Our God in grandeur, and our world on fire."

Burneth up his enemies round about. — The fire is his pioneer which destroys all the hinderances in his way, and makes him a plain passage.


 
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