Psalms 97:4

In 11 translations

BSB

His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.

KJV

His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

WEB

His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

ASV

His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled.

LSV

His lightnings have lightened the world, || The earth has seen, and is pained.

YLT

Lightened have His lightnings the world, The earth hath seen, and is pained.

DBY

His lightnings lightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

DRC96:4

His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and trembled.

GNV

His lightnings gaue light vnto the worlde: the earth sawe it and was afraide.

JPS

His lightnings lighted up the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

LXXE96:4

His lightnings appeared to the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

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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

הֵאִ֣ירוּ בְרָקָ֣יו תֵּבֵ֑ל רָאֲתָ֖ה וַתָּחֵ֣ל הָאָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br96:4

Ἔφαναν αἱ ἀστραπαὶ αὐτοῦ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ, εἶδε καὶ ἐσαλεύθη ἡ γῆ·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Revelation 11:19Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
• Psalms 77:18Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
• Exodus 19:16–18On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled. Then Moses…
• Psalms 104:32He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
• Jeremiah 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
• Job 9:6He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.
• Psalms 144:5–6Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke. Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
• Psalms 114:7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
• Matthew 27:50–51When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit. At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
• Psalms 96:9Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.
• Revelation 19:11Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
• Matthew 28:2–3Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

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