Psalms 104:32
He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
BSB
ASV
Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
KJV
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth. The Lord who has graciously displayed his power in acts and works of goodness might, if he had seen fit, have overwhelmed us with the terrors of destruction, for even at a glance of his eye the solid earth rocks with fear. He toucheth the hills, and they smoke. Sinai was altogether on a smoke when the Lord descended upon it. It was but a touch, but it sufficed to make the mountain dissolve in flame. Even our God is a consuming fire.
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Psalms 114:7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves…
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
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Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
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The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
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Psalms 144:5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
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He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.