Psalms 60 · Verse 2

Psalms 60:2

Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Psalms 60:2, King James Version

Psalms 60:2 in other translations

BSBYou have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.
WEBYou have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
ASVThou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
YLTThou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved.
DARBYThou hast made the earth to tremble, thou hast rent it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
BBEBy the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.
WebsterThou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal its breaches; for it shaketh.

What does Psalms 60:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 60:1-3

Psa 60:1-12. Shushan-eduth--Lily of testimony. The lily is an emblem of beauty (see on Psa 45:1, title). As a description of the Psalm, those terms combined may denote a beautiful poem, witnessing--that is, for God's faithfulness as evinced in the victories referred to in the history cited. Aram-naharaim--Syria of the two rivers, or Mesopotamia beyond the river (Euphrates) (2Sa 10:16). Aram-zobah--Syria of Zobah…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 60:1-5

David owns God's displeasure to be the cause of all the hardships he had undergone. And when God is turning his hand in our favour, it is good to remember our former troubles. In God's displeasure their troubles began, therefore in his favour their prosperity must begin. Those breaches and divisions which the folly and corruption of man make, nothing but the wisdom and grace of God can repair, by pouring out a…

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Psalms 60:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הִרְעַ֣שְׁתָּהhir.'Ash.tahyou have made quakeH7493
אֶ֣רֶץ'E.retz[the] earthH776
פְּצַמְתָּ֑הּpe.tzam.Tahyou have split open itH6480
רְפָ֖הre.Fahrepair !H7495
שְׁבָרֶ֣יהָshe.va.Rei.hafractures itsH7667
כִי\־khi-forH3588
מָֽטָה\׃Ma.tahit is shakingH4131

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 60:2

  • 2 Chronicles 7:14

    If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

  • Hosea 6:1

    Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

  • Isaiah 30:26

    Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

  • Jeremiah 48:38

    There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 4:24

    I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

  • Isaiah 5:25

    Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Ezekiel 34:16

    I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

  • Jeremiah 10:10

    But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

  • Psalms 18:7

    Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

  • Psalms 114:7

    Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

  • 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.

  • Job 9:6

    Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
made.
104:32; 114:7; 2Sa 22:8; Job 9:6; Isa 5:25; Jer 4:24; 10:10; Am 8:8
Hab 3:10; Mt 27:51
broken.
89:40; 2Sa 2:8-32; 3:11-14; Isa 7:8; Jer 14:17; 48:38; Hag 2:6,7
heal.
2Ch 7:14; Job 5:18; Isa 30:26; Jer 30:17; La 2:13; Eze 34:16
Ho 6:1

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Context

  • Psalms 60:1

    To the chief Musician upon Shushan–eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram–naharaim and with Aram–zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

  • Psalms 60:2

    Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

  • Psalms 60:3

    Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

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Psalms 60:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Hiciste temblar la tierra, abrístela: sana sus quiebras, porque titubea.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
quand il fit la guerre contre les Syriens de Naharaïm, et contre les Syriens de Tsoba, et que Joab revint et frappa les Édomites dans la vallée du Sel, au nombre de 12 000.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Du hast das Land erschüttert, hast es zerrissen; heile seine Risse, denn es wankt!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam; intende orationi meæ.