There the angel of the LORD appeared to him as a flame coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up.

All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD had come down on it in fire. The smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and all the people trembled violently.

because the LORD your God is like a flaming fire; he tolerates no rivals.

He let you hear his voice from heaven so that he could instruct you; and here on earth he let you see his holy fire, and he spoke to you from it.

The figure seemed to be shining like bronze in the middle of a fire. It shone all over with a bright light

When he is angry, who can survive? Who can survive his terrible fury? He pours out his flaming anger; rocks crumble to dust before him.

He comes with the brightness of lightning; light flashes from his hand, there where his power is hidden.

He sends disease before him and commands death to follow him.

You have not come, as the people of Israel came, to what you can feel, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm,

because our God is indeed a destroying fire.