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 4:31When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
• Ezek 38:19–20For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
• Ps 68:7–8God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
• Deut 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
• Acts 16:25–26But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
• Jer 4:24I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 114:4–7The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
• Matt 28:2Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.
• 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.
• 1 Cor 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
• Ps 46:2Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

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