Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.

King James Version

The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Holman Bible

Nations rage, kingdoms topple;
the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

International Standard Version

The nations roared; the kingdoms were shaken. His voice boomed; the earth melts.

A Conservative Version

The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved, he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

American Standard Version

The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Amplified


The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered and were moved;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.

Bible in Basic English

The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.

Darby Translation

The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Julia Smith Translation

Nations raged, kingdoms were moved: he gave with his voice, the earth will melt

King James 2000

The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Nations roar, kingdoms shake; he utters his voice, [the] earth melts.

Modern King James verseion

The nations raged, the kingdoms were shaken; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.

NET Bible

Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown. God gives a shout, the earth dissolves.

New Heart English Bible

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

The Emphasized Bible

Nations have roared, Kingdoms have tottered, He hath uttered his voice, Earth melteth.

Webster

The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

World English Bible

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

Youngs Literal Translation

Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.

Verse Info

Context Readings

God Our Refuge

5 God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
6 The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.
7 The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

Cross References

Amos 9:5

The Lord God of hosts,
The One who touches the land so that it melts,
And all those who dwell in it mourn,
And all of it rises up like the Nile
And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;

Joshua 2:9

and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you.

Joshua 2:24

They said to Joshua, “Surely the Lord has given all the land into our hands; moreover, all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before us.”

Nahum 1:5

Mountains quake because of Him
And the hills dissolve;
Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence,
The world and all the inhabitants in it.

Joshua 2:11

When we heard it, our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you; for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.

2 Chronicles 14:9-13

Now Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

2 Chronicles 20:1

Now it came about after this that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.

2 Chronicles 20:20-24

They rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa; and when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, put your trust in the Lord your God and you will be established. Put your trust in His prophets and succeed.”

Psalm 2:1-4

Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?

Psalm 18:13

The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
And the Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 68:8

The earth quaked;
The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God;
Sinai itself quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Psalm 68:33

To Him who rides upon the highest heavens, which are from ancient times;
Behold, He speaks forth with His voice, a mighty voice.

Psalm 83:2-8

For behold, Your enemies make an uproar,
And those who hate You have exalted themselves.

Psalm 97:5

The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord,
At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Isaiah 8:9-10

Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered;
And give ear, all remote places of the earth.
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

Isaiah 14:12-16

“How you have fallen from heaven,
O star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!

Isaiah 37:21-36

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Isaiah 64:1-2

Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down,
That the mountains might quake at Your presence—

Jeremiah 25:30

“Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them,
‘The Lord will roar from on high
And utter His voice from His holy habitation;
He will roar mightily against His fold.
He will shout like those who tread the grapes,
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Joel 2:11

The Lord utters His voice before His army;
Surely His camp is very great,
For strong is he who carries out His word.
The day of the Lord is indeed great and very awesome,
And who can endure it?

Amos 1:2

He said,
“The Lord roars from Zion
And from Jerusalem He utters His voice;
And the shepherds’ pasture grounds mourn,
And the summit of Carmel dries up.”

Amos 9:13

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When the plowman will overtake the reaper
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
When the mountains will drip sweet wine
And all the hills will be dissolved.

Micah 1:4

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

Habakkuk 3:5-6

Before Him goes pestilence,
And plague comes after Him.

Habakkuk 3:10-11

The mountains saw You and quaked;
The downpour of waters swept by.
The deep uttered forth its voice,
It lifted high its hands.

2 Peter 3:10-12

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.

Revelation 6:13-14

and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.

Revelation 20:11

Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

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