Deuteronomy 4:24
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24 For the Lord, your God, is a consuming fire, a jealous God.[a](A)
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- 4:24 A jealous God: Hebrew ’el qanna. The root of the adjective qanna expresses the idea of intense feeling focused on solicitude for someone or something; see, e.g., Ps 69:10; Sg 8:6; Is 9:6; 37:32; Ez 39:25. The Septuagint translated the adjective as zelotes, and the Vulgate followed suit; hence the traditional English rendering “jealous” (and sometimes “zealous”) found in the Douai-Rheims and King James versions. In modern usage, however, “jealous” denotes unreasonable, petty possessiveness, a meaning, even as nuance, wanting in the Hebrew. In the first commandment (5:6–10; Ex 20:2–6) and passages derived from it (like 4:24; 6:15; Ex 34:14; Jos 24:19; Na 1:2), Israel’s God is represented as totally committed to his purpose, and Israel is put on notice to take him and his directives for their life as a people with equal seriousness.
Psalm 18:7-8
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7 In my distress I called out: Lord!
I cried out to my God.(A)
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry to him reached his ears.
8 [a]The earth rocked and shook;
the foundations of the mountains trembled;
they shook as his wrath flared up.(B)
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- 18:8–16 God appears in the storm, which in Palestine comes from the west. The introduction to the theophany (Ps 18:8–9) is probably a description of a violent, hot, and dry east-wind storm. In the fall transition period from the rainless summer to the rainy winter such storms regularly precede the rains, cf. Ex 14:21–22.
Psalm 50:3
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3 Our God comes and will not be silent!
Devouring fire precedes him,
it rages strongly around him.(A)
Lamentations 4:11
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11 The Lord has exhausted his anger,
poured out his blazing wrath;
He has kindled a fire in Zion
that has consumed her foundations.(A)
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