SEV Biblia, Chapter 18:7
Y la tierra fue conmovida y tembló; y los fundamentos de los montes se estremecieron, y se removieron porque él se enojó.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 17:8
Verse 8. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils-Or, 'There ascended into his nostrils a smoke,' as the words, literally rendered, signify. The ancients placed the seat of anger in the nose, or nostrils; because when the passions are warm and violent, it discovers itself by the heated vehement breath which proceeds from them. Hence the physiognomists considered open wide nostrils as a sign of an angry, fiery disposition. "This description of a smoke arising into and a fire breaking forth from the nostrils of God, denotes, by a poetical figure, the greatness of his anger and indignation.
"Fire out of his mouth devoured-means that consuming fire issued out of his mouth. Coals were kind led by it, thus we render the next clause; but the words do not mean that fire proceeding from God kindled coals, but that burning coals issued from his mouth; and it should be rendered 'living coals from his mouth burned, and consumed around him.'- Chandler.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-19 - The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are the scop and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy whic magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence i very fully described, ver. #(7-15). Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the histor of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words whic are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Ever part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David i here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in du time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethseman and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepes calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love wer withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought his out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.
Original Hebrew
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