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Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
Psalms 29:8 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
  • BSB The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
  • NKJV The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; The Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
  • NASB The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
  • NLT The voice of the Lord makes the barren wilderness quake; the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 9

  • Num 13:26They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
  • Job 9:6He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
  • Isa 13:13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
  • Ps 46:3though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
  • Ps 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
  • Hag 2:6For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
  • Heb 12:26whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
  • Joel 3:16Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
  • Hag 2:21“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth.

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