The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
Parallel translations
- WEB The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
- KJV The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
- 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 the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
- Rev 20:11Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
- Isa 24:1–5Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
- Nah 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.
- Jer 4:23–28I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
- Deut 11:6and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them.
- Hab 3:6He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
- Matt 24:3While Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”
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