Psalm 83:14
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New International Version (©2011)
As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

New Living Translation (©2007)
As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

English Standard Version (©2001)
As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

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

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
As fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes through mountains,

International Standard Version (©2012)
Like a fire burning a forest, and a flame setting mountains ablaze.

NET Bible (©2006)
Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Like fire that is left in a forest like a flame that burns the mountains.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Pursue them with your storms, and terrify them with your windstorms

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
As the fire burns wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

American King James Version
As the fire burns a wood, and as 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,

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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,

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

83:9-18 All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their enemies like a wheel; unsettled in all their counsels and resolves. Not only let them be driven away as stubble, but burnt as stubble. And this will be the end of wicked men. Let them be made to fear thy name, and perhaps that will bring them to seek thy name. We should desire no confusion to our enemies and persecutors but what may forward their conversion. The stormy tempest of Divine vengeance will overtake them, unless they repent and seek the pardoning mercy of their offended Lord. God's triumphs over his enemies, clearly prove that he is, according to his name JEHOVAH, an almighty Being, who has all power and perfection in himself. May we fear his wrath, and yield ourselves to be his willing servants. And let us seek deliverance by the destruction of our fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 14. - As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire. Cause them, i.e., to consume away and perish, as a burning forest, or as blazing brushwood on a mountainside.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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) "sylvam", Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c. (n) Georgic. l. 2. v. 310.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

14, 15. Pursue them to an utter destruction.

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God, Don't Keep Silent
…13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire; 15So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm. …

Exodus 19:18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
Isaiah 9:18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.