Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

References

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

War

Context Readings

God Judges The Wicked

2 When I receive an appointment, I -- I do judge uprightly. 3 Melted is the earth and all its inhabitants, I -- I have pondered its pillars. Selah. 4 I have said to the boastful, 'Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, 'Raise not up a horn.'

Cross References

1 Samuel 2:8

He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

Isaiah 24:19

Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.

1 Samuel 18:7

and the women answer -- those playing, and say, 'Saul hath smitten among his thousands, And David among his myriads.'

1 Samuel 25:28

Bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy handmaid, for Jehovah doth certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Jehovah hath my lord fought, and evil is not found in thee all thy days.

1 Samuel 31:1-7

And the Philistines are fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel flee from the face of the Philistines, and fall wounded in mount Gilboa,

2 Samuel 5:2

also heretofore, in Saul's being king over us, thou hast been he who is bringing out and bringing in Israel, and Jehovah saith to thee, Thou dost feed My people Israel, and thou art for leader over Israel.'

Psalm 60:1-3

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

Psalm 78:60-72

And He leaveth the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,

Isaiah 24:1-12

Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned it on its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.

Isaiah 49:8

Thus said Jehovah: 'In a time of good pleasure I answered thee, And in a day of salvation I helped thee, And I keep thee, and give thee, For a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, To cause to inherit desolate inheritances.

Hebrews 1:3

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

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