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Psalm 50:3

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50:3Our God approaches and is not silent;5

consuming fire goes ahead of him

and all around him a storm rages.6

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Footnotes

  1. 5 According to §109.e, the jussive (note the negative particle אַל, ’al) is used rhetorically here “to express the conviction that something cannot or should not happen.”
  2. 6 Heb “fire before him devours, and around him it is very stormy.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Our God comes; he does not keep silence;

before him is a devouring fire,

around him a mighty tempest.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Our God comes

and will not be silent;

a fire devours before him,

and around him a tempest rages.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Our God is coming; he will not be silent!

Devouring fire precedes him,

and a storm rages around him.

NLTNew Living Translation

Our God approaches,

and he is not silent.

Fire devours everything in his way,

and a great storm rages around him.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Our God comes and he is not silent.

Before him fire devours,

and around him it is very tempestuous.

KJV 1900King James Version

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence:

A fire shall devour before him,

And it shall be very tempestuous round about him.