Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The earth is weak, and all that is therein; but I bear up her pillars. Selah.

New American Standard Bible

“The earth and all who dwell in it melt;
It is I who have firmly set its pillars. Selah.

King James Version

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

Holman Bible

When the earth and all its inhabitants shake,
I am the One who steadies its pillars.Selah

International Standard Version

While the earth and all its inhabitants melt away, it is I who keep its pillars firm." Interlude

A Conservative Version

[when] the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I have set up the pillars of it. Selah.

American Standard Version

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. Selah

Amplified


“The earth and all the inhabitants of it melt [in tumultuous times].
It is I who will steady its pillars. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)

Darby Translation

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have established its pillars. Selah.

Julia Smith Translation

The earth and all dwelling in it being melted: I made even its pillars. Silence.

King James 2000

The earth and all inhabitants are dissolved: I hold up the pillars of it. Selah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] earth and all its inhabitants [are] shaking; I steady its columns. Selah

Modern King James verseion

The earth and all its people are melting away; I hold up its pillars. Selah.

NET Bible

When the earth and all its inhabitants dissolve in fear, I make its pillars secure." (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

Earth was melting away with all its inhabitants, I, have fixed the pillars thereof. Selah.

Webster

The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

World English Bible

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

Melted is the earth and all its inhabitants, I -- I have pondered its pillars. Selah.

References

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Context Readings

God Judges The Wicked

2 When I may get a convenient time, I shall judge according unto right. 3 The earth is weak, and all that is therein; but I bear up her pillars. Selah. 4 I said unto the fools, "Deal not so madly," and to the ungodly, "Set not up your horn.

Cross References

1 Samuel 2:8

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill: to set them among princes, and to inherit them with the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the round world upon them.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth shall give a great crack, it shall have a sore ruin, and take a horrible fall.

1 Samuel 18:7

And the women that played sang thereto, and said, "Saul hath slain his thousand, and David his ten thousand."

1 Samuel 25:28

Forgive the trespass of thine handmaid that the LORD may make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and there could none evil be found in thee in all thy life.

1 Samuel 31:1-7

And as the Philistines fought against Israel, the men of Israel fled away from the Philistines, and fell down dead in mount Gilboa.

2 Samuel 5:2

And thereto in time past when Saul was king over us, thou leddest Israel in and out. And the LORD hath said to thee, 'Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.'"

Psalm 60:1-3

{To the chanter, upon the rose of witness, Michtam of David, for to teach: when he fought against Mesopotamia, and Syria of Zoba: and when Joab turned back, and slew twelve thousand Edomites in the valley of Salt} O God, thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad; thou that hast been so sore displeased at us, comfort us again.

Psalm 78:60-72

so that he forsook the Tabernacle in Shiloh, even the tent that he had pitched among men.

Isaiah 24:1-12

Behold, the LORD shall waste and plague the world, he shall make the face of the earth desolate, and scatter abroad the inhabiters thereof.

Isaiah 49:8

And thus sayeth the LORD: In the time appointed will I be present with thee. And in the hour of health will I help thee, and deliver thee. I will make thee a pledge for the people, so that thou shalt help up the earth again, and challenge again the scattered heritages:

Hebrews 1:3

Which son, being the brightness of his glory, and very image of his substance, bearing up all things with the word of his power, hath in his own person purged our sins, and is sitten on the righthand of the majesty on high,

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