The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
Parallel translations
- KJV The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
- BSB When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
- NKJV The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I set up its pillars firmly. Selah
- NASB “The earth and all who inhabit it are unsteady; It is I who have firmly set its pillars. Selah
- NLT When the earth quakes and its people live in turmoil, I am the one who keeps its foundations firm. Interlude
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Quick answer
Though the earth and its people totter, God Himself holds its pillars firm.
Overview
Even when society seems to dissolve in upheaval, God sustains the very foundations of creation. The image of holding the earth's pillars assures that nothing collapses beyond His control. This confidence in God's steadying hand offers stability to believers amid a shaking world, a stability secured in the unshakable kingdom of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 1 Sam 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
- Isa 24:19The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
- Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Isa 49:8Yahweh says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
- Ps 60:1–3For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
- 2 Sam 5:2In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’”
- 1 Sam 31:1–7Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
- Isa 24:1–12Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
- 1 Sam 25:28Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.
- Ps 78:60–72So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
- 1 Sam 18:7The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
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