Deuteronomy 32:22 “For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of…”

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

World English Bible

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

American Standard Version

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Geneva Bible 1599

For fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burne vnto the bottome of hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines.

Darby Translation

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.

Young's Literal Translation

For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol — the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains.

Bible in Basic English

For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

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Cross references

“For a fire”

Lamentations 4:11 Jeremiah 15:14 Numbers 16:35 Jeremiah 17:4 Deuteronomy 29:20 Psalm 21:9

Lamentations 4:11 · BSB

The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.

Jeremiah 15:14 · BSB

Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

Numbers 16:35 · BSB

And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

Jeremiah 17:4 · BSB

And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”

Deuteronomy 29:20 · BSB

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Psalm 21:9 · BSB

You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

“lowest”

Psalm 86:13 Zephaniah 3:8 Isaiah 30:33 Matthew 10:28 Matthew 18:9 Matthew 23:33

Psalm 86:13 · BSB

For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

Zephaniah 3:8 · BSB

Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation— all My burning anger. For all the earth will…

Isaiah 30:33 · BSB

For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

Matthew 10:28 · BSB

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 18:9 · BSB

And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

Matthew 23:33 · BSB

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

“shall consume”

Isaiah 24:6 Isaiah 24:19 Isaiah 24:20

Isaiah 24:6 · BSB

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

Isaiah 24:19 · BSB

The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

Isaiah 24:20 · BSB

The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.

“foundations”

Micah 1:4 Psalm 46:2 Psalm 144:5 Isaiah 54:10 Habakkuk 3:10 Job 9:5

Micah 1:4 · BSB

The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

Psalm 46:2 · BSB

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,

Psalm 144:5 · BSB

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Isaiah 54:10 · BSB

Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Habakkuk 3:10 · BSB

The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

Job 9:5 · BSB

He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.

Also

Psalm 18:7–8

Psalm 18:7–8 · BSB

Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

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