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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Psalms 50:3

Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire - before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Judgment;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fire;   God;   The Topic Concordance - Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;   Gathering;   Judges;   Righteousness;   Saints;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Second Coming of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Psalms, the Book of;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Conflagration;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ancient of Days;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Fire;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bush, the Burning;   Peter, the Second Epistle of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Our God is coming; he will not be silent!Devouring fire precedes him,and a storm rages around him.
Hebrew Names Version
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very tempestuous around him.
King 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.
English Standard Version
Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.
New Century Version
Our God comes, and he will not be silent. A fire burns in front of him, and a powerful storm surrounds him.
New English Translation
Our God approaches and is not silent; consuming fire goes ahead of him and all around him a storm rages.
Amplified Bible
May our God come and not keep silent; Fire devours before Him, And around Him a mighty tempest rages.
New American Standard Bible
May our God come and not keep silent; Fire devours before Him, And a storm is violently raging around Him.
World English Bible
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very tempestuous around him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, & a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.
Legacy Standard Bible
May our God come and not be silent;Fire devours before Him,And a storm whirls around Him.
Berean Standard Bible
Our God comes and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
Contemporary English Version
Our God approaches, but not silently; a flaming fire comes first, and a storm surrounds him.
Complete Jewish Bible
Our God is coming and not staying silent. With a fire devouring ahead of him and a great storm raging around him,
Darby Translation
Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Easy-to-Read Version
Our God is coming and will not keep quiet. Fire burns in front of him. There is a great storm around him.
George Lamsa Translation
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; a fire shall consume before him, and it shall flame round about him greatly.
Good News Translation
Our God is coming, but not in silence; a raging fire is in front of him, a furious storm around him.
Lexham English Bible
Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous.
Literal Translation
Our God comes, and He is not silent; a fire shall devour before Him; and it shall be very stormy around Him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oure God shal come, and not kepe sylence: there goeth before him a consumynge fyre, and a mightie tempest rounde aboute him.
American Standard Version
Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
Bible in Basic English
Our God will come, and will not keep quiet; with fire burning before him, and storm-winds round him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence;
King James Version (1611)
Our God shall come, and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and it shalbe very tempestuous round about him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our Lorde commeth, and he wyll not kepe scilence: there goeth before hym a consumyng fire, and a mightie tempest is sturred rounde about hym.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.
English Revised 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God schal come opynli; oure God, and he schal not be stille. Fier schal brenne an hiye in his siyt; and a strong tempest in his cumpas.
Update Bible Version
Our God comes, and does not keep silent: A fire devours before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
Webster's Bible Translation
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.
New King James Version
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent; A fire shall devour before Him, And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.
New Living Translation
Our God approaches, and he is not silent. Fire devours everything in his way, and a great storm rages around him.
New Life Bible
May our God come and not keep quiet. A fire burns before Him, and around Him is a powerful storm.
New Revised Standard
Our God comes and does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, and a mighty tempest all around him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-3) God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
Revised Standard Version
Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
Young's Literal Translation
Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
May our God come and not keep silence; Fire devours before Him, And it is very tempestuous around Him.

Contextual Overview

1 El, Elohim, Yahweh, hath spoken, and culled the earth, From the rising of the sun, unto the going in thereof: 2 Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God, hath shone forth. 3 Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire - before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous: 4 He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people. 5 Gather yourselves unto me - ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice. 6 Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. Selah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Our: Psalms 48:14, Psalms 68:20, Revelation 22:20

keep: Psalms 50:21, Psalms 83:1, Isaiah 42:13, Isaiah 42:14, Isaiah 65:6, Isaiah 65:7

a fire: Psalms 97:3, Exodus 19:18, Leviticus 10:2, Numbers 16:35, Deuteronomy 9:3, 1 Kings 19:11, 1 Kings 19:12, Daniel 7:10, Nahum 1:5-7, Habakkuk 3:5, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 3:3, Malachi 4:1, Matthew 3:12, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, Hebrews 2:3, Hebrews 10:28, Hebrews 10:29, Hebrews 12:18-21, Hebrews 12:29

it shall: Psalms 18:7-15, Psalms 97:4, Psalms 97:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:14 - hold Exodus 19:16 - thunders 2 Kings 19:7 - a blast Job 40:6 - out Psalms 9:7 - he hath Psalms 83:15 - General Psalms 104:32 - he toucheth Isaiah 10:17 - for a flame Isaiah 26:21 - Lord Isaiah 33:14 - Who among us shall dwell with the Isaiah 35:4 - behold Isaiah 66:15 - the Lord Ezekiel 1:4 - a great Ezekiel 1:27 - the appearance of fire Ezekiel 22:21 - and blow Joel 2:3 - fire Nahum 1:3 - his way Habakkuk 1:13 - holdest Malachi 3:5 - I will come Matthew 25:6 - Behold Matthew 25:32 - he shall separate John 5:22 - General Acts 24:25 - judgment 2 Corinthians 5:10 - we 2 Peter 3:7 - the heavens 2 Peter 3:12 - the heavens

Cross-References

Genesis 50:10
And they came in, as far as the threshing-floor of the Buckthorn, which is beyond the Jordan, then wailed they there - an exceeding great and grievous walling, - and he made for his father a mourning, of seven days.
Numbers 20:29
And all the assembly saw that Aaron was dead; and they bewailed Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
Deuteronomy 21:13
and put away the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother for the space of a month, - and after that, mayest thou go in unto her, and he her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
Deuteronomy 34:8
And the sons of Israel bewailed Moses in the waste plains of Moab thirty day, - then were completed the wailing-days of the mourning for Moses.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our God shall come,.... That is, Christ, who is truly and properly God, and who was promised and expected as a divine Person; and which was necessary on account of the work he came about; and believers claim an interest in him as their God; and he is their God, in whom they trust, and whom they worship: and this coming of his is to be understood, not of his coming in the flesh; for though that was promised, believed, and prayed for, as these words are by some rendered, "may our God come" r; yet at his first coming he was silent, his voice was not heard in the streets, Matthew 12:19; nor did any fire or tempest attend that: nor is it to be interpreted of his second coming, or coming to judgment; for though that also is promised, believed, and prayed for; and when he will not be silent, but by his voice will raise the dead, summon all before him, and pronounce the sentence on all; and the world, and all that is therein, will be burnt with fire, and a horrible tempest rained upon the wicked; yet it is better to understand it of his coming to set up his kingdom in the world, and to punish his professing people for their disbelief and rejection of him; see Matthew 16:28;

and shall not keep silence; contain himself, bear with the Jews any longer, but come forth in his wrath against them; see Psalms 50:21; and it may also denote the great sound of the Gospel, and the very public ministration of it in the Gentile world, at or before this time, for the enlargement of Christ's kingdom in it;

a fire shall devour before him; meaning either the fire of the divine word making its way among the Gentiles, consuming their idolatry, superstition, c. or rather the fire of divine wrath coming upon the Jews to the uttermost and even it may be literally understood of the fire that consumed their city and temple, as was predicted, Zechariah 11:1

and it shall be very tempestuous round about him; the time of Jerusalem's destruction being such a time of trouble as has not been since the world began, Matthew 24:21.

r יבא "veniat", Junius Tremellius so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our God shall come - That is, he will come to judgment. This language is derived from the supposition that God “will” judge the world, and it shows that this doctrine was understood and believed by the Hebrews. The New Testament has stated the fact that this will be done by the coming of his Son Jesus Christ to gather the nations before him, and to pronounce tile final sentence on mankind: Matthew 25:31; Acts 17:31; Acts 10:42; John 5:22.

And shall not keep silence - That is, the will come forth and “express” his judgment on the conduct of mankind. See the notes at Psalms 28:1. He “seems” now to be silent. No voice is heard. No sentence is pronounced. But this will not always be the case. The time is coming when he will manifest himself, and will no longer be silent as to the conduct and character of people, but will pronounce a sentence, fixing their destiny according to their character.

A fire shall devour before him - Compare the notes at 2 Thessalonians 1:8; notes at Hebrews 10:27. The “language” here is undoubtedly taken from the representation of God as he manifested himself at Mount Sinai. Thus, in Exodus 19:16, Exodus 19:18, it is said, “And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

And it shall be very tempestuous round about him - The word used here - שׂער śa‛ar - means properly to shudder; to shiver; and then it is employed to denote the commotion and raging of a tempest. The allusion is doubtless to the descent on Mount Sinai Exodus 19:16, and to the storm accompanied by thunder and lightning which beat upon the mountain when God descended on it to give his law. The whole is designed to represent God as clothed with appropriate majesty when judgment is to be pronounced upon the world.


 
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