Psalms 104:32
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
Psalms 104:32 in other translations
| BSB | He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder. |
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| WEB | He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke. |
| ASV | Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke. |
| YLT | Who is looking to earth, and it trembleth, He cometh against hills, and they smoke. |
| DARBY | He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the mountains, and they smoke. |
| BBE | At whose look the earth is shaking; at whose touch the mountains send out smoke. |
| Webster | He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. |
What does Psalms 104:32 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 104:31-34
31-34. While God could equally glorify His power in destruction, that He does it in preservation is of His rich goodness and mercy, so that we may well spend our lives in grateful praise, honoring to Him, and delightful to pious hearts (Psa 147:1).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 104:31-35
Man's glory is fading; God's glory is everlasting: creatures change, but with the Creator there is no variableness. And if mediation on the glories of creation be so sweet to the soul, what greater glory appears to the enlightened mind, when contemplating the great work of redemption! There alone can a sinner perceive ground of confidence and joy in God. While he with pleasure upholds all, governs all, and rejoices…
Psalms 104:32 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 104:32
- Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Psalms 144:5
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
- Psalms 97:4-5
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
- Habakkuk 3:10
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
- Amos 8:8
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
- Nahum 1:5-6
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
- Psalms 114:7
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
- Isaiah 64:1-2
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
- Habakkuk 3:5-6
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
- Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
- Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
- Psalms 77:16
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
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Context
- Psalms 104:31
The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
- Psalms 104:32
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
- Psalms 104:33
I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Psalms 104:32 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El cual mira á la tierra, y ella tiembla; toca los montes, y humean. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il regarde vers la terre, et elle tremble; il touche les montagnes, et elles fument. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Der die Erde anschaut, und sie bebt; er rührt die Berge an, und sie rauchen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Posuit pluvias eorum grandinem: ignem comburentem in terra ipsorum. |