Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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 marched before Your people, when You walked through the wilderness; Selah. 8 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. 9 You, O God, sent a plentiful rain, by which You upheld Your inheritance when it was weary.
Cross References
Exodus 19:18
And Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because Jehovah came down upon it in fire. And the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
Exodus 19:16
And it happened on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain. And the voice of the trumpet was exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
Judges 5:4-5
Jehovah, when You went out of Seir, when You marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
Psalm 77:18
The voice of Your thunder was in the sky; the lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
Deuteronomy 5:23-25
And it happened when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, for the mountain burned with fire, you came near me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,
Psalm 41:13
Blessed is Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen and Amen!
Psalm 68:35
O God, You are overwhelming out of Your holy places; the God of Israel is He who gives strength and powers to the people. Blessed is God.
Psalm 114:7
Earth, tremble at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Isaiah 45:3
And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I am Jehovah, who calls you by your name, the God of Israel.
Isaiah 64:1
Oh that You would tear the heavens and come down, that mountains would quake before You,
Isaiah 64:3
When You did dreadful things which we did not look for, You came down, the mountains flowed down at Your presence.
Habakkuk 3:13
You went forth for the salvation of Your people, for salvation with Your anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked, to bare the foundation to the neck. Selah.
Hebrews 12:26
whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will not only shake the earth, but also the heavens."
Revelation 11:19
And the temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His covenant, and there occurred lightnings and voices, and thunders and an earthquake, and a great hail.