Psalm 18:8
8 There went up [`alah] a smoke [`ashan] out of his nostrils, ['aph]
and fire ['esh] out of his mouth [peh] devoured: ['akal] coals [gechel] were kindled [ba`ar] by it.
KJV-Interlinear
8 Smoke
went up out of His nostrils, And fire from His mouth devoured; Coals were
kindled by it. NASB
The imagery of a large
and powerful dragon is used to describe the power and determination of God in
His righteous effort.
Taken from folklore, the
dragon is used to describe the animal response when angered by an adversary,
and provoked into a confrontation or a fight.
The heavy breathing, the
fire and hot coals from the mouth, all describe the power and resolve of the
dragon or beast, not only to defend its own, but to dispatch quickly any
adversary challenging its territory.
In typical folklore, the
dragon is powerful and against which there is no equal. And so anyone who might be foolish enough to
challenge its lair, would never return to tell about it. The fire would remove any and all evidence of
the threat. Not even the ashes would
remain as evidence that a challenge had ever been made.
And thus the symbolisms
continue in describing Gods response to evil, and one day, at the end of time, that
response will actually come, and the aftermath of the world will see total decimation
and destruction.
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