Psalms 68:8
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.
Psalms 68:8 in other translations
| BSB | the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel. |
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| WEB | 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. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | The earth hath shaken, Yea, the heavens have dropped before God, This Sinai--before God, the God of Israel. |
| DARBY | The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, yon Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel. |
| BBE | The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before 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. |
What does Psalms 68:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 68:7-8
7-8. (Compare Ex 19:16-18). thou wentest--in the pillar of fire. thou didst march--literally, "in Thy tread," Thy majestic movement.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 68:7-14
Fresh mercies should put us in mind of former mercies. If God bring his people into a wilderness, he will be sure to go before them in it, and to bring them out of it. He provided for them, both in the wilderness and in Canaan. The daily manna seems here meant. And it looks to the spiritual provision for God's Israel. The Spirit of grace and the gospel of grace are the plentiful rain, with which God confirms his…
Psalms 68:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 68:8
- 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.
- Exodus 19:16
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
- Judges 5:4-5
Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 5:23-25
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die.
- Hebrews 12:26
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
- Psalms 41:13
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
- Isaiah 45:3
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
- Psalms 77:18
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
- Psalms 68:35
O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
- Isaiah 64:3
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
- Psalms 114:7
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
- Isaiah 64:1
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
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Context
- Psalms 68:7
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
- Psalms 68:8
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.
- Psalms 68:9
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
Psalms 68:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | La tierra tembló; también destilaron los cielos á la presencia de Dios: aquel Sinaí tembló delante de Dios, del Dios de Israel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ô Dieu! quand tu sortis devant ton peuple, quand tu marchas dans le désert, (Sélah) |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Da bebte die Erde, -auch troffen die Himmel vor Gott-jener Sinai vor Gott, dem Gott Israels. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quoniam propter te sustinui opprobrium; operuit confusio faciem meam. |