Psalm 18:8
New International Version
Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.

New Living Translation
Smoke poured from his nostrils; fierce flames leaped from his mouth. Glowing coals blazed forth from him.

English Standard Version
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

Berean Standard Bible
Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

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

New King James Version
Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it.

New American Standard Bible
Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And fire from His mouth was devouring; Coals burned from it.

NASB 1995
Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And fire from His mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.

NASB 1977
Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And fire from His mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.

Legacy Standard Bible
Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And fire from His mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.

Amplified Bible
Smoke went up from His nostrils, And fire from His mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.

Christian Standard Bible
Smoke rose from his nostrils, and consuming fire came from his mouth; coals were set ablaze by it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; coals were set ablaze by it.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Smoke went up in his wrath and fire from his face. He was inflamed and coals were kindled by him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.

Contemporary English Version
and breathed out smoke. Scorching heat and fiery flames spewed from your mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and a raging fire came out of his mouth. Glowing coals flared up from it.

Good News Translation
Smoke poured out of his nostrils, a consuming flame and burning coals from his mouth.

International Standard Version
In his anger smoke poured out of his nostrils, and consuming fire from his mouth; coals were lit from it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Smoke arose up in His nostrils, And fire out of His mouth did devour; Coals flamed forth from Him.

Literal Standard Version
Smoke has gone up from His nostrils, | And fire from His mouth consumes, | Coals have been kindled by it.

Majority Standard Bible
Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

New American Bible
Smoke rose from his nostrils, a devouring fire from his mouth; it kindled coals into flame.

NET Bible
Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

New Revised Standard Version
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

New Heart English Bible
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

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

World English Bible
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

Young's Literal Translation
Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.

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Context
The LORD is My Rock
7Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger. 8Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth. 9He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Psalm 18:15
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

Psalm 50:3
Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

Psalm 74:1
Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger burn against the sheep of Your pasture?

Psalm 97:3
Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.

Ezekiel 38:18
Now on that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, My wrath will flare up.

Ezekiel 38:19
In My zeal and fiery rage I proclaim that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

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

went

Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 74:1
Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

out of his [Heb.

Daniel 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.

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.

Nahum 1:5,6
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…

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Psalm 18
1. David praises God for his manifold and marvelous blessings














(8) A smoke.--Now the thunder-cloud forms--smoke, as it were, from the nostrils of God (comp. Psalm 74:1; Deuteronomy 29:20 : the literal rendering is, "there ascended smoke in his nostrils")--and intermittent flashes of lightning dart forth and play about the distant summits, seeming to devour everything in its path. (Comp. the expression lambent flame.")

Coals were kindled by it.--Rather, flaming coals blazed from it.

Verse 8. - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils. Emissions of smoke are a common feature of volcanic disturbances, with which earthquakes are closely connected. The LXX. give, instead of "out of his nostrils," in his anger (ἐν ὀργῇ αὐτοῦ), which is better, since the Hebrew prefix בּ, "in," certainly cannot mean "out of." And fire out of his mouth devoured. Fire-balls are said to have accompanied some earthquakes, as especially that one by which Julian's design of rebuilding Jerusalem was frustrated. Coals were kindled by it. The fire-balls above spoken of are declared to have scorched and burnt the workmen employed by Julian (Amm. Marc., 23. 1).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Smoke
עָשָׁ֨ן ׀ (‘ā·šān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6227: Smoke

rose
עָ֘לָ֤ה (‘ā·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

from His nostrils,
בְּאַפּ֗וֹ (bə·’ap·pōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

and consuming
תֹּאכֵ֑ל (tō·ḵêl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

fire
וְאֵשׁ־ (wə·’êš-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's 784: A fire

came from
מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃ (mim·men·nū)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

His mouth;
מִפִּ֥יו (mip·pîw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

glowing coals
גֶּ֝חָלִ֗ים (ge·ḥā·lîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1513: An ember

flamed forth.
בָּעֲר֥וּ (bā·‘ă·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1197: To kindle, consume, to be, brutish


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