Psalm 97:3 {96:3}
Good News Translation
Fire goes in front of him and burns up his enemies around him.

New Revised Standard Version
Fire goes before him, and consumes his adversaries on every side.

Contemporary English Version
Fire leaps from his throne, destroying his enemies,

New American Bible
Fire goes before him, consuming his foes on every side.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.

Psalm 18:8 There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.

Psalm 21:8,9 Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee. . . .

Psalm 50:3 God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.

Deuteronomy 4:11,36 And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:4,23,24 He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

Daniel 7:10 A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.

Nahum 1:5,6 The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and the earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein. . . .

Habakkuk 3:5 Death shall go before his face. And the devil shall go forth before his feet.

Malachi 4:1 For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

2 Peter 3:10-12 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up. . . .

Revelation 11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire shall come out of their mouths and shall devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, in this manner must he be slain.

Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the pool of fire.

Context
Let the Earth Rejoice
2Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne. 3A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.4His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and trembled.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.

2 Samuel 22:9
A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his mouth: coals were kindled by it.

Psalm 18:8
There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.

Psalm 18:12
At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

Psalm 50:3
God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.

Daniel 7:10
A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.

Joel 2:3
Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a burning flame: the land is like a garden of pleasure before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness, neither is there any one that can escape it.

Habakkuk 3:5
Death shall go before his face. And the devil shall go forth before his feet.

Malachi 4:1
For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.

Psalm 97:2
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