The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
- 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.
- 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.
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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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