His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.
Parallel translations
- KJV His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
- BSB His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
- NKJV His lightnings light the world; The earth sees and trembles.
- NASB His lightning lit up the world; The earth saw it and trembled.
- NLT His lightning flashes out across the world. The earth sees and trembles.
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- Ps 77:18The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
- Rev 11:19God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.
- Exod 19:16–18On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
- Job 9:6He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
- Ps 104:32He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
- Jer 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
- Ps 114:7Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
- Rev 19:11I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
- Matt 27:50–51Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
- Ps 96:9Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.
- Ps 144:5–6Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
- Matt 28:2–3Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.
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