◄ Psalm 104:4 {103:4} ►
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Good News Translation
You use the winds as your messengers and flashes of lightning as your servants.

New Revised Standard Version
you make the winds your messengers, fire and flame your ministers.

Contemporary English Version
The winds are your messengers, and flames of fire are your servants.

New American Bible
You make the winds your messengers; flaming fire, your ministers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.

who maketh

Acts 23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

Hebrews 1:7,14 And to the angels indeed he saith: He that maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire. . . .

ministers

2 Kings 2:11 And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a fiery chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2 Kings 6:17 And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round about Eliseus.

Ezekiel 1:13 And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the fire.

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
…3Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds. 4Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.5Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.…
Cross References
Hebrews 1:7
And to the angels indeed he saith: He that maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire.

Genesis 3:24
And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

2 Kings 2:11
And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a fiery chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2 Kings 6:17
And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round about Eliseus.

Psalm 103:21
Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do his will.

Psalm 147:15
Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.

Psalm 148:8
Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:

Ezekiel 1:13
And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the fire.

Psalm 104:3
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