The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
Parallel translations
- KJV The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
- BSB The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
- NKJV The earth is violently broken, The earth is split open, The earth is shaken exceedingly.
- NASB The earth is broken apart, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently.
- NLT The earth has broken up. It has utterly collapsed; it is violently shaken.
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Quick answer
The earth is broken, split apart, and violently shaken. Creation itself convulses under God's judgment.
Overview
Three escalating verbs portray the earth shattering, tearing, and reeling. The very ground gives way beneath sinful humanity. The verse pictures a cosmic dissolution that points toward the final shaking of heaven and earth foretold in Scripture.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 34:4–10All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
- Rev 20:11I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
- Isa 24:1–5Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
- Nah 1:5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
- Jer 4:23–28I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Deut 11:6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;
- Hab 3:6He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
- Matt 24:3As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”
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