He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
Parallel translations
- KJV He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
- BSB He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
- NKJV He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke.
- NASB He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
- NLT The earth trembles at his glance; the mountains smoke at his touch.
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- Ps 144:5Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
- Exod 19:18All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
- Ps 97:4–5His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.
- 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.
- Ps 114:7Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
- Nah 1:5–6The 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 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
- Ps 77:16The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.
- 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.
- Hab 3:5–6Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
- Isa 64:1–2Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.
- Jer 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t pass over it.’
- Jer 4:23–26I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Amos 8:8Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
- Rev 19:3A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
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