Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
Parallel translations
- WEB You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,
- BSB From heaven You pronounced judgment, and the earth feared and was still
- NKJV You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; The earth feared and was still,
- NASB ¶You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; The earth feared and was still
- NLT From heaven you sentenced your enemies; the earth trembled and stood silent before you.
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God pronounced judgment from heaven, and the earth feared and fell silent.
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When God speaks His verdict, all creation responds with awe-struck silence. His judgment is announced from heaven, beyond all human appeal. This reverent stillness before the divine Judge reminds believers that the final word over history belongs to God, whose judgments are perfectly just.
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Cross-references · 9
- 2 Chr 20:29–30And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.
- Hab 2:20But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
- Zech 2:13Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
- Ps 46:10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
- 2 Chr 32:20–22And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
- 1 Chr 16:30Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
- Exod 19:10And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
- Judg 5:20They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
- Ezek 38:20–23So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
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