The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
Parallel translations
- WEB The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. 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 raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
- Isa 24:19The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
- Heb 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Isa 49:8Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
- Ps 60:1–3O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
- 2 Sam 5:2Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain 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 in mount Gilboa.
- Isa 24:1–12Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
- 1 Sam 25:28I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
- Ps 78:60–72So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
- 1 Sam 18:7And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
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