Psalms 114:7
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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ASV
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,
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Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord,.... Or, "the earth has trembled at the presence of the Lord"; so the Syriac and Arabic versions render it; the imperative is sometimes put for the preterite or past tense, see Psa 22:9, likewise the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions thus render it, "the earth is moved at the presence of the Lord"; and then the sense is by a prosopopoeia.
The mercy of the miracle: What ailed thee? Was it only to amuse men? No; it was at the presence of the God of Jacob; it was in kindness to the Israel of God, for the salvation of that chosen people, that God was thus displeased against the rivers, and his wrath was against the sea, as the prophet speaks, Hab. iii.
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. Or "from before the Lord, the Adonai, the Master and King." Very fitly does the Psalm call upon all nature again to feel a holy awe because its Ruler is still in its midst. Let the believer feel that God is near, and he will serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Awe is not cast out by faith, but the rather it becomes deeper and more profound. The Lord is most reverenced where he is most loved.
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Jeremiah 5:22Do 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…
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You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—
when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
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Psalms 104:32He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
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Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Mount 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.
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.