At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”
Parallel translations
- WEB whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
- KJV Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
- NKJV whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.”
- NASB And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.”
- NLT When God spoke from Mount Sinai his voice shook the earth, but now he makes another promise: “Once again I will shake not only the earth but the heavens also.”
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God's voice once shook the earth, but he has promised to shake both earth and heaven once more. A final, comprehensive upheaval of all creation is coming.
Overview
Recalling the shaking of Sinai, the author cites Haggai 2:6 to announce a future, greater shaking that will reach not only the earth but the heavens. This points to God's climactic intervention at the end, when the whole created order will be shaken. The warning of verse 25 thus carries cosmic and eschatological weight, fulfilled in Christ's final reign.
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- Hag 2:6–7For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
- Isa 13:13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.
- Exod 19:18Mount 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.
- Joel 3:16The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
- Isa 2:19Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
- Hab 3:10The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
- Heb 12:27The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain.
- Ps 114:6–7O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
- Hag 2:22I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.
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