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Psalms 68:8

The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

KJV

Quoniam propter te sustinui opprobrium ; operuit confusio faciem meam.

Vulgate

ὅτι ἕνεκα σοῦ ὑπήνεγκα ὀνειδισμόν, ἐκάλυψεν ἐντροπὴ τὸ πρόσωπόν μου·

LXX

The earth trembled, The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God: Yon Sinai trembled at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

ASV

אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים בְּ֭/צֵאתְ/ךָ לִ/פְנֵ֣י עַמֶּ֑/ךָ בְּ/צַעְדְּ/ךָ֖ בִֽ/ישִׁימ֣וֹן סֶֽלָה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

י
y
noun · 1849×
יְשִׁימֹֽן
yshymn
noun · 13×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
סֶֽלָה
slh
particle · 71×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
צָעֲד֛וּ
ts'dv
verb · 8×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 19:11 — And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the
  • Deut 5:23 — And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
  • Exod 19:16 — 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
  • Exod 19:18 — 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.
  • Gal 4:25 — For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
  • Heb 12:26 — Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
  • Isa 45:3 — And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
  • Isa 64:1 — Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
  • Isa 64:3 — When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
  • Job 9:5 — Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
  • Judg 5:4 — LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
  • Judg 5:5 — The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
  • Nah 1:5 — The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
  • Ps 41:13 — Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
  • Ps 46:6 — The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
  • Ps 68:35 — O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
  • Ps 77:18 — The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
  • Ps 114:7 — Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;