Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
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 thou wentest forth before the people, when thou wentest through the wilderness, Selah, 8 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. 9 Thou, O God sendest a gracious rain upon thine inheritance, and refreshest it when it is dry.
Cross References
Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the LORD descended down upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the smoke of a kiln, and all the mount was exceeding fearful.
Exodus 19:16
And the third day in the morning there was thunder, and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn waxed exceeding loud, and all the people that was in the host was afraid.
Judges 5:4-5
LORD, when thou departedest out of Seir and camest from the fields of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heaven rained, and the clouds dropped water:
Psalm 77:18
The voice of thy thunder was heard round about; the lightnings shone upon the ground. The earth was moved, and shook withal.
Deuteronomy 5:23-25
But as soon as ye heard the voice out of the darkness and saw the hill burn with fire, ye came unto me all the heads of your tribes and your elders:
Psalm 41:13
O blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from henceforth and forevermore. Amen. Amen.
Psalm 68:35
O God, wonderful art thou in thy holy places, even the God of Israel; he will give strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
Psalm 114:7
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Isaiah 45:3
I shall give thee the hid treasure and the thing which is secretly kept, that thou mayest know, that I the God of Israel have called thee by thy name:
Isaiah 64:1
O that thou wouldest cleave the heaven in sunder, and come down: that the mountains might melt away at thy presence,
Isaiah 64:3
When thou wroughtest wondrous strange works, we looked not for them: thou camest down and the hills melted at thy presence.
Habakkuk 3:13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for the salvation of thine anointed. Thou smotest down the head in the house of the ungodly, and discoveredest his foundations, even unto the neck of him. Selah.
Hebrews 12:26
whose voice then shook the earth, and now declareth, saying "Yet once more will I shake, not the earth only, but also heaven."
Revelation 11:19
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen, in his temple, the ark of his testament: and there followed lightnings, and voices, and thunderings and earthquake, and much hail.