Psalms 18:8
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
9He also bowed the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
Cross References
Genesis 19:28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Numbers 11:1And the people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of LORD. And when LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the outermost part of the camp.
Deuteronomy 29:20LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lay upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
Job 41:19Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.
Psalms 21:9Thou will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Psalms 74:1O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 18:2-20
David's Triumphs in God; Devout Confidence. 1 I will love thee, O Lord , my strength. 2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 3 I will call upon the Lord , who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 6 In my… Read the whole commentary →