Psalms 97:3 · KJV
“A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.”
— Psalms 97:3
Clouds and darkness {are} round about him: righteousness and judgment {are} the habitation of his throne. {habitation: or, establishment}
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
Psalms 97 — Context
The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad {thereof}. {multitude...: Heb. many, or, great isles}
2Clouds and darkness {are} round about him: righteousness and judgment {are} the habitation of his throne. {habitation: or, establishment}
3A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
4His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
5The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Cross References
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. {out of his nostrils: Heb. by his, etc}
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: {taking: or, yielding}
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.
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.
Psalms 21:8-9
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
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.