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How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

Psalms 104:32

In 11 translations

BSB
He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
KJV
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
WEB
He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
ASV
Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
LSV
Who is looking to earth, and it trembles, || He comes against hills, and they smoke.
YLT
Who is looking to earth, and it trembleth, He cometh against hills, and they smoke.
DBY
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
DRC103:32
He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
GNV
He looketh on the earth and it trembleth: he toucheth the mountaines, and they smoke.
JPS
Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
LXXE103:32
who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble; who touches the mountains, and they smoke.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הַמַּבִּ֣יט לָ֭אָרֶץ וַתִּרְעָ֑ד יִגַּ֖ע בֶּהָרִ֣ים וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃
LXX-Br103:32
Ὁ ἐπιβλέπων ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ ποιῶν αὐτὴν τρέμειν, ὁ ἁπτόμενος τῶν ὀρέων καὶ καπνίζονται.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 144:5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
  • 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.
  • Psalms 97:4–5His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
  • Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
  • Psalms 114:7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
  • Amos 8:8Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
  • Nahum 1:5–6The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers. Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out…
  • Jeremiah 4:23–26I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light. I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying. I looked, and no man was left;…
  • Isaiah 64:1–2If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence, as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations…
  • Revelation 20:11Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
  • 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 surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but…
  • Psalms 77:16The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
  • Habakkuk 3:5–6Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps. He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
  • Psalms 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
  • Revelation 19:3And a second time they called out: “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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