Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageLike fire consuming dry kindling, like flames making water boil over—come and make Your name known to Your enemies, so that every nation trembles before You!
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GAs fire sets tinder ablaze and makes water seethe and boil—to make Your name known to Your foes, that the nations would shudder before Your face!
KJV
King James VersionAs when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
BSB
Berean Standard Bibleas fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
Footnotes
Verse 2 extends the simile of v. 1 and reaches back to the Sinai theophany (Exod. 19), where fire, smoke, and violent trembling accompanied YHWH's descent. The tinder-and-water imagery conveys both consuming destruction and unstoppable, spreading power. The purpose clause *lehodi'a shimkha* ('to make Your name known') anchors this cosmic spectacle in covenant mission: divine self-disclosure as the goal of theophanic terror. FOG preserves 'seethe and boil' for visceral immediacy; FOG Message draws out the evangelistic and eschatological weight of the nations trembling at the revealed Name.
