Psalms 18:7

God's coming to rescue is pictured as an earthquake shaking the mountains in his anger. It matters because it portrays God's awesome power unleashed on behalf of his people.

Cross-references · 14

• Acts 4:31And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
• Ezek 38:19–20For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
• Ps 68:7–8O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
• Deut 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
• Acts 16:25–26And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
• Jer 4:24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
• Judg 5:4LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
• Zech 14:4And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
• Hab 3:10The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
• Ps 114:4–7The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
• Matt 28:2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
• Hab 3:6He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
• 1 Cor 13:2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
• Ps 46:2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

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