Psalms 83:14

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

Darby Translation
As fire burneth a forest, 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,

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

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

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

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

King James Version
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

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

Amplified Bible
Like fire consumes the forest, And like the flame 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,

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

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

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.

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

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

Hebrew Names Version
As the fire that burns the forest, As the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

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

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

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;

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁹ Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. ¹⁰ They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil. ¹¹ Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹² for they said, "Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!" ¹³ O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind! ¹⁴ As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, ¹⁵ chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest. ¹⁶ Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O Lord . ¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace. ¹⁸ Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord , that you alone are the Most High, supreme 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.