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Psalms 18:8

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

Psalms 18:8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 18:8

Theological / Devotional

Smoke. The smoke, fire, and coals describe the clouds and lightning. One should not endeavor to shape these figures into a concrete form as if God appeared in a visible way. Rather, the poet’s aim is vividly to impress men with a profound sense of awe, as if in the presence of the Omnipotent (see Ps. 74:1; 97:2; 140:10; cf. Hab. 3:5).

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