Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

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.

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

the earth trembled and the skies poured down rain
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.

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.

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.

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.

References

American

Fausets

Prayers for Psalm 68:8

Context Readings

God's Majestic Power

7 O God, in thy going forth before thy people, in thy stepping in the desert. Silence. 8 The earth shook, also the heavens dropped from the face of God, this Sinai from the face of God, the God of Israel. 9 Thou wilt scatter a rain of abundance, O God, to thine inheritance, and being weary thou didst make it firm.


Cross References

Exodus 19:18

And mount Sinai smoked all of it, because that Jehovah came down upon it in fire: and its smoke will go up as the smoke of the furnace, and all the mountain will tremble exceedingly.

Exodus 19:16

And it shall be in the third day, it being in the morning, and there shall be voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly strong; and all the people in the camp will tremble.

Judges 5:4-5

Jehovah, in thy going forth from Seir, In thy ascending from the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Also the clouds dropped water.

Psalm 77:18

The voice of thy thunder in the wheel: the lightnings lightened the habitable globe: the earth moved and it will shake.

Deuteronomy 5:23-25

And it will be as ye are hearing the voice from the midst of the darkness (and the mount burnt with fire), and. ye will come near to me all the heads of your tribes, and your old men;

Psalm 41:13

Praised be Jehovah God of Israel, from forever and even to forever. Amen and Amen.

Psalm 68:35

O God, being wonderful in thy holy things: the God of Israel, he gave strength and powers to the people. Praised be God.

Psalm 114:7

From the face of Jehovah tremble thou earth; from the face of the God of Jacob;

Isaiah 45:3

And I gave to thee the treasures of darkness, and the hidden stores of lurking places, so that thou shalt know that I Jehovah calling by, thy name am the God of Israel.

Isaiah 64:1

Would that thou didst rend the heavens; thou camest down; the mountains flowed from before thee.

Isaiah 64:3

In thy doing wonderful things we shall not expect, thou camest down, the mountains flowed from before thee.

Habakkuk 3:13

Thou wentest forth to save thy people, to save thy Messiah; thou didst crush the head from the house of the unjust, making naked the foundation, even to the neck. Silence.

Hebrews 12:26

Whose voice then shook the earth: and now he has proclaimed, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.

Revelation 11:19

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and shakings, and great hail.

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