The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes 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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Quick answer
The Lord's voice shakes the wilderness, even the wilderness of Kadesh. It extends God's power over the desert regions.
Overview
From the northern cedars to the southern wilderness, God's voice reaches every corner of the land. No region lies beyond His sovereign reach. The shaking wilderness testifies that all creation, fertile or barren, answers to its Maker.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Num 13:26And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
- Job 9:6Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
- Isa 13:13Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
- Ps 46:3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
- Ps 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
- Hag 2:6For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
- Heb 12:26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
- Joel 3:16The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
- Hag 2:21Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
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