Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Holman Bible
before God, the God of Sinai,
before God, the God of Israel.
International Standard Version
the land quaked. Indeed, the heavens poured down rain from the presence of God, this God of Sinai, from the presence of God, the God of Israel.
A Conservative Version
the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, Sinai at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
American Standard Version
The earth trembled, The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God: Yon Sinai trembled at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Amplified
The earth trembled;
The heavens also poured down rain at the presence of God;
Sinai itself trembled at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Darby Translation
The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, yon Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Julia Smith Translation
The earth shook, also the heavens dropped from the face of God, this Sinai from the face of God, the God of Israel.
King James 2000
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[the] earth shook; [the] heavens also dripped [rain] at the presence of God who [was] at Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Modern King James verseion
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God; Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
the earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the presence of God, even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God, who is the God of Israel.
NET Bible
the earth shakes, yes, the heavens pour down rain before God, the God of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
New Heart English Bible
The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai?at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
The Emphasized Bible
Earth, trembled, Yea, the heavens, dripped at the presence of God, - This Sinai - at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Webster
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
World English Bible
The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai -- at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Youngs Literal Translation
The earth hath shaken, Yea, the heavens have dropped before God, This Sinai -- before God, the God of Israel.
Themes
the Earth » Described as » Trembling before God
Earthquakes » Instances of » At sinai
Sinai » A mountain in the peninsula east of the red sea » The law delivered to moses upon
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 68:8
Prayers for Psalm 68:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Majestic Power
7 O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.) 8 The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel. 9 You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.
Cross References
Exodus 19:18
And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.
Exodus 19:16
And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.
Judges 5:4-5
Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.
Psalm 77:18
The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.
Deuteronomy 5:23-25
And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me,
Psalm 41:13
May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.
Psalm 68:35
O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.
Psalm 114:7
Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;
Isaiah 45:3
And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.
Isaiah 64:1
O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you,
Isaiah 64:3
While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.
Habakkuk 3:13
You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.
Hebrews 12:26
Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.
Revelation 11:19
And the house of God which is in heaven was open; and the ark of his agreement was seen in his house, and there were flames and voices and thunders and an earth-shock and a rain of ice.