Psalms 18:8

Smoke went up from his nostrils, devouring fire from his mouth, coals were kindled by it.

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

In Context

7Then the earth shook and quaked, mountains trembled to their foundations, and quaked because of his wrath.

9Then he bent the sky and came down, thick darkness was under his feet.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:28and as he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the plain, he saw the smoke of the land going up as the smoke of a smelting-furnace.

Psalms 21:9You will make them like a furnace of fire, when you appear, Lord. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire will devour them.

Psalms 74:1Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your 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 →

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