Psalms 83:14

The Darby Translation

As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As fire burns a forest,as a flame blazes through mountains,

Hebrew Names Version
As the fire that burns the forest, As the 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;

English Standard Version
As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

New Century Version
Be like a fire that burns a forest or like flames that blaze through the hills.

New English Translation
Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

Amplified Bible
Like fire consumes the forest, And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,

New American Standard Bible
Like fire that burns the forest, And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

World English Bible
As the fire that burns the forest, As the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Geneva Bible (1587)
As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:

Legacy Standard Bible
Like fire that burns the forestAnd like a flame that burns up the mountains,

Berean Standard Bible
As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

Contemporary English Version
Just as flames destroy forests on the mountains,

Complete Jewish Bible
My God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff driven by the wind.

Easy-to-Read Version
Be like a fire that destroys a forest or like a flame that sets the hills on fire.

George Lamsa Translation
As the fire burns a forest and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

Good News Translation
As fire burns the forest, as flames set the hills on fire,

Lexham English Bible
As fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets afire mountains,

Literal Translation
As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like as a fyre that burneth vp the wodd, & as the flame that consumeth the mountaynes.

American Standard Version
As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,

Bible in Basic English
As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.

King James Version (1611)
As the fire burneth a wood: and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Lyke as a fire that burneth vp the wood: and as the flambe that consumeth the mountaynes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;

English Revised Version
As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As fier that brenneth a wode; and as flawme brynnynge hillis.

Update Bible Version
As the fire that burns the forest, And as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Webster's Bible Translation
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

New King James Version
As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,

New Living Translation
As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

New Life Bible
As the fire that burns up the trees and spreads over the mountains,

New Revised Standard
As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As a fire burneth a forest, - And as a flame setteth mountains ablaze,

Douay-Rheims Bible
(82-15) As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

Revised Standard Version
As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

Young's Literal Translation
As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Like fire that burns the forest And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Contextual Overview

⁹ Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon: ¹⁰ Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground. ¹¹ Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna. ¹² For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession. ¹³ O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind. ¹⁴ As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire, ¹⁵ So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind. ¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah. ¹⁷ Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish: ¹⁸ That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the 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.