Psalms 97:4
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
Psalms 97:4 in other translations
| BSB | His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles. |
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| WEB | His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles. |
| ASV | His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled. |
| YLT | Lightened have His lightnings the world, The earth hath seen, and is pained. |
| DARBY | His lightnings lightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. |
| BBE | His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear. |
| Webster | His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. |
What does Psalms 97:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 97:3-5
3-5. The attending illustrations of God's awful justice on enemies (Psa 83:14) are seen in the disclosures of His almighty power on the elements of nature (compare Psa 46:2; 77:17; Ha 3:6, &c.).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 97:1-7
Though many have been made happy in Christ, still there is room. And all have reason to rejoice in Christ's government. There is a depth in his counsels, which we must not pretend to fathom; but still righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. Christ's government, though it might be matter of joy to all, will yet be matter of terror to some; but it is their own fault that it is so. The most…
Psalms 97:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 97:4
- Psalms 77:18
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
- Revelation 11:19
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
- Exodus 19:16-18
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. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 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 104:32
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
- Job 9:6
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
- 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.
- Revelation 19:11
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
- Psalms 144:5-6
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
- Psalms 96:9
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
- Psalms 114:7
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
- Matthew 27:50-51
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
- Matthew 28:2-3
And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
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Context
- Psalms 97:3
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
- Psalms 97:4
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
- Psalms 97:5
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Psalms 97:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Sus relámpagos alumbraron el mundo: la tierra vió, y estremecióse. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ses éclairs illuminent le monde: la terre le vit et trembla. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Seine Blitze erleuchteten den Erdkreis: die Erde sah es und bebte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Jubilate Deo, omnis terra; cantate, et exsultate, et psallite. |