The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
- BSB The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
- NKJV The mountains will melt under Him, And the valleys will split Like wax before the fire, Like waters poured down a steep place.
- NASB The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place.
- NLT The mountains melt beneath his feet and flow into the valleys like wax in a fire, like water pouring down a hill.
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- 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.
- Ps 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
- Amos 9:5For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
- Judg 5:4“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
- Hab 3:10The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
- 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.
- Isa 64:1–3Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.
- Ps 68:2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
- Zech 14:4His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
- 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.
- 2 Pet 3:10–12But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
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