Exodus 19:18
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Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
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The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.