Psalms 97:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 97:3

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

KJV

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ASV

A fire goeth before him, And burneth up his adversaries round about.

WEB

Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.

YLT

Fire before Him goeth, And burneth round about His adversaries.

DBT

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his adversaries round about.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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24 verses on the floor

Psalms 50:3
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
Psalms 18:8
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

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Voices3

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This was fulfilled in the enmity of the unbelieving Jews to the gospel of Christ, and the violent persecution which in all places they stirred up against the preachers and professors of it. These enemies are here called hills (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

When the kingdom of Christ was to be set up in the world, after his ascension, it would meet with many enemies, and much opposition would be given to it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The attending illustrations of God's awful justice on enemies (Ps 83:14) are seen in the disclosures of His almighty power on the elements of nature (compare Ps 46:2;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 97:3MAL 4:1 2TH 1:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 97:3MAL 4:1 2PE 3:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 97:3HEB 12:29 HEB 10:27
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 97:3HEB 12:29 DEU 4:24
PSA 97:3HEB 12:29 DEU 9:3
PSA 97:3HEB 12:29 ISA 66:15
PSA 97:32TH 1:8 1PE 4:17
PSA 97:3MAL 4:1 MAL 3:2

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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