Psalms 18:8. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
This is a wonderful picture of the anger of God. The Hebrews always connected manifestations of anger with the nose and mouth just as they ascribed various passions and feelings to the different members of the body. So David says, "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured." Does someone ask, "Can prayer move God in this way?" Yes, it seems so. Of course, David had to speak after the manner of men; there is no other way in which men can speak, so he describes God as being thus stirred by the cry of his poor child when it came up into his ears. Nothing brings a man’s temper into his face like an injury done to his child, and God, as a father, cannot endure to have his children hurt. "He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye."
Psalms 18:8. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
This is a wonderful picture of the anger of God. The Hebrews always connected manifestations of anger with the nose and mouth just as they ascribed various passions and feelings to the different members of the body. So David says, "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured." Does someone ask, "Can prayer move God in this way?" Yes, it seems so. Of course, David had to speak after the manner of men; there is no other way in which men can speak, so he describes God as being thus stirred by the cry of his poor child when it came up into his ears. Nothing brings a man’s temper into his face like an injury done to his child, and God, as a father, cannot endure to have his children hurt. "He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye."