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Psalms 18:8

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

KJV

Lex Domini immaculata, convertens animas ; testimonium Domini fidele, sapientiam præstans parvulis.

Vulgate

ὁ νόμος τοῦ κυρίου ἄμωμος, ἐπιστρέφων ψυχάς· ἡ μαρτυρία Κυρίου πιστή, σοφίζουσα νήπια.

LXX

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.

ASV

וַ/תִּגְעַ֬שׁ וַ/תִּרְעַ֨שׁ הָ/אָ֗רֶץ וּ/מוֹסְדֵ֣י הָרִ֣ים יִרְגָּ֑זוּ וַ֝/יִּתְגָּֽעֲשׁ֗וּ כִּי חָ֥רָה לֽ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
הַ֣ר
hr
noun · 544×
יִרְגַּ֖ז
yrgz
verb · 41×
יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּ
yr'shv
verb · 29×
יִּֽחַר
ychr
verb · 89×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מוֹסְדֵ֥י
mvsdy
noun · 11×
תגעש
tg'sh
verb · 10×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 8:12 — Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
  • 2Chr 6:1 — Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
  • Amos 4:11 — I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
  • Dan 7:10 — A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
  • Deut 29:20 — The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot
  • Gen 19:28 — And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
  • Isa 11:4 — But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay
  • Job 41:21 — His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
  • Lev 10:2 — And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
  • Nah 1:5 — The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
  • Num 16:35 — And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
  • Ps 11:6 — Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
  • Ps 21:9 — Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
  • Ps 21:9 — Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
  • Ps 74:1 — O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
  • Ps 97:3 — A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
  • Ps 144:5 — Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
  • Rev 11:5 — And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.