Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

New American Standard Bible

The mountains will melt under Him
And the valleys will be split,
Like wax before the fire,
Like water poured down a steep place.

King James Version

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

Holman Bible

The mountains will melt beneath Him,
and the valleys will split apart,
like wax near a fire,
like water cascading down a mountainside.

International Standard Version

The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will split apart, like wax in the presence of fire and like water gushing down a steep incline.

A Conservative Version

And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

American Standard Version

And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

Amplified


The mountains shall melt under Him
And the valleys shall be split
Like wax before the fire,
Like waters poured down a steep place.

Bible in Basic English

And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.

Darby Translation

And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.

Julia Smith Translation

And the mountains melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft as wax from the face of the fire, as waters cast down in a descent

King James 2000

And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

Modern King James verseion

And the mountains shall melt under Him, and the valleys shall tear themselves, as wax before the fire, and as waters poured down a steep place.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The mountains shall consume under him, and the valleys shall cleave asunder: like as wax consumeth at the fire, and as the waters run downward.

NET Bible

The mountains will disintegrate beneath him, and the valleys will be split in two. The mountains will melt like wax in a fire, the rocks will slide down like water cascading down a steep slope.

The Emphasized Bible

Then shall the mountains be melted beneath him, and, the valleys, be cleft, - as wax before the fire, as waters poured out in a steep place.

Webster

And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

World English Bible

The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

Youngs Literal Translation

Melted have been the mountains under Him, And the valleys do rend themselves, As wax from the presence of fire, As waters cast down by a slope.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the mountains
הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

מסס 
Macac 
Usage: 21

under him, and the valleys
עמק 
`emeq 
Usage: 69

בּקע 
Baqa` 
Usage: 51

as wax
דּונג 
Downag 
wax
Usage: 4

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

the fire
אשׁ 
'esh 
Usage: 378

and as the waters
מים 
Mayim 
Usage: 581

נגר 
Nagar 
Usage: 10

References

American

Easton

Wax

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Coming Judgment On Israel

3 For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth. 4 The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place. 5 "All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn't it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren't they Jerusalem?



Cross References

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Psalm 97:5

The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Amos 9:5

For the Lord, the LORD of hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

Judges 5:4

"LORD, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.

Psalm 68:2

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Isaiah 64:1-3

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

Zechariah 14:4

His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

2 Peter 3:10-12

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be disclosed.

Revelation 20:11

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

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