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Psalms 50:3

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— May our God come and not keep silence; Fire devours before Him, And it is very tempestuous around Him.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— 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 Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire—before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— 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.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, ? a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Our God shall come, and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and it shalbe very tempestuous round about him.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; a fire shall consume before him, and it shall flame round about him greatly.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— 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.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Our Elohim shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Our ´Élöhîm אֱלֹהִים 430
{0430} Prime
אֱלֹהִים
'elohiym
{el-o-heem'}
Plural of H0433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative.
shall come, 935
{0935} Prime
בּוֹא
bow'
{bo}
A primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
and shall not x408
(0408) Complement
אַל
'al
{al}
A negative particle (akin to H3808); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing.
keep silence: 2790
{2790} Prime
חָרַשׁ
charash
{khaw-rash'}
A primitive root; to scratch, that is, (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
a fire 784
{0784} Prime
אֵשׁ
'esh
{aysh}
A primitive word; fire (literally or figuratively).
shall devour 398
{0398} Prime
אָכַל
'akal
{aw-kal'}
A primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
before 6440
{6440} Prime
פָּנִים
paniym
{paw-neem'}
Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun (פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.).
him, and it shall be very 3966
{3966} Prime
מְאֹד
m@`od
{meh-ode'}
From the same as H0181; properly vehemence, that is, (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated).
tempestuous 8175
{8175} Prime
שָׂעַר
sa`ar
{saw-ar'}
A rpim root; to storm; by implication to shiver, that is, fear.
z8738
<8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 1429
round about 5439
{5439} Prime
סָבִיב
cabiyb
{saw-beeb'}
From H5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbor, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around.
him.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 50:1-4.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 50:1-6.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 50:3

Our God — The prophet speaks this in the persons of the worshippers of God. Though he be our God, yet he will come to execute judgment upon us. Cease — Or delay to sit in judgment. Tempestuous — This is a farther description of that terrible majesty, wherewith God would clothe himself when he came to his tribunal.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Psalms 50:3

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a (d) fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

(d) As when God gave his law in mount Sinai he appeared terrible with thunder and tempest, so will he appear terrible to take account for the keeping of it.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
Our:

Psalms 48:14 For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] unto death.
Psalms 68:20 [He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord [belong] the issues from death.
Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

keep:

Psalms 50:21 These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
Psalms 83:1 [[A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph.]] Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Isaiah 42:13-14 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. ... I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, [and] refrained myself: [now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Isaiah 65:6-7 Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, ... Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

a fire:

Psalms 97:3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
Exodus 19:18 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.
Leviticus 10:2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Numbers 16:35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Deuteronomy 9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
1 Kings 19:11-12 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; [but] the LORD [was] not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD [was] not in the earthquake: ... And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
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.
Nahum 1:5-7 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. ... The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Habakkuk 3:5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
Malachi 3:2-3 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: ... And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
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.
Matthew 3:12 Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: ... Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard [him];
Hebrews 10:28-29 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: ... Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 12:18-21 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, ... And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
Hebrews 12:29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.

it shall:

Psalms 18:7-15 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. ... Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Psalms 97:4-5 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. ... The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Ex 19:18. Lv 10:2. Nu 16:35. Dt 9:3. 1K 19:11. Ps 18:7; 48:14; 50:21; 68:20; 83:1; 97:3, 4. Is 42:13; 65:6. Dn 7:10. Na 1:5. Hab 3:5. Mal 3:2; 4:1. Mt 3:12. 2Th 1:8. He 2:3; 10:28; 12:18, 29. Rv 22:20.

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