Lexicon :: Strong's H3852 - lehāḇâ

“For fire has gone out of Heshbon,

A flame from the city of Sihon;

It devoured Ar of Moab

And the lords of the heights of the Arnon.

The voice of the LORD rakes flames of fire (lightning).

Like fire consumes the forest,

And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,

He gave them hail for rain,

With flaming fire in their land.

And a fire broke out in their company;

The flame consumed the wicked.

Therefore, as the tongue of fire consumes the stubble [from straw]

And the dry grass collapses into the flame,

So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away like fine dust;

Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts

And despised and discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.

And the Light of Israel will become a fire and His Holy One a flame,

And it will [fn]burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and briars in a single day.

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;

And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you.

When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched,

Nor will the flame burn you.

“In fact, they are like stubble;

Fire burns them.

They cannot save themselves from the power of the flame [much less save the nation],

There is no blazing coal for warming

Nor fire before which to sit!

“In the shadow of Heshbon

The fugitives stand powerless [helpless and without strength],

For a fire has gone out from Heshbon,

A flame from the midst of Sihon;

It has destroyed the forehead of Moab

And the crowns of the heads of [the arrogant Moabites] the ones in tumult.

In fierce anger He has cut off and destroyed

Every [fn]horn of Israel.

He has withdrawn His right hand

From the presence of the enemy.

And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire

Consuming all around.

As they approach their plotting,

Their mind burns [with intrigue] like an oven [while they lie in wait].

Their anger smolders all night;

In the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

O LORD, I cry out to You,

For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,

And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.

Before them a fire devours,

And behind them a flame burns;

Before them the land is like the Garden of Eden,

But behind them a desolate wilderness;

And nothing at all escapes them.

“Then the house of Jacob shall be a fire

And the house of Joseph a flame [in executing God’s wrath];

But the house of Esau will be like stubble.

They (Jacob) shall set them on fire and consume them (the Edomites),

So that there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau,”

For the LORD has spoken.