¹² and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.

⁶ He said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.^(A)

³³ Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?^(A)

¹¹ you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain while the mountain was blazing up to the very heavens, shrouded in dark clouds.^{(A) 12} Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.^(B)

⁶ The Lord passed before him and proclaimed,

² There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed.^(A)

¹⁷ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.^(A)

²⁹ for indeed our God is a consuming fire.^(A)