Psalms Chapter 18 verse 7 Holy Bible
Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.
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Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
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Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth.
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Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
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In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
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Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, Because he was angry.
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And shake and tremble doth the earth, And foundations of hills are troubled, And they shake -- because He hath wrath.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Then the earth shook and trembled; or, quailed and quaked (Kay, who thus expresses the assonance of the Hebrew vat-tig'ash vat-tir ash). The psalmist must not be understood literally. He does not mean that the deliverance came by earthquake, storm, and thunder, but describes the discomfiture and dismay of his opponents by a series of highly poetical images. In these he, no doubt, follows nature closely, and probably describes what he had seen, heard, and felt. The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken. In violent earthquakes, the earth seems to rock to its foundations; mountain ranges are sometimes actually elevated to a height of several feet; rocks topple down; and occasionally there are earth-slips of enormous dimensions. Because he was wroth. God's anger against the psalmist's enemies produced the entire disturbance which he is describing.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) The earth shook.--The sudden burst of the storm is the Divine answer to the sufferer's prayer. For similar manifestations comp. Psalm 68:7-8; Psalm 77:14-20; Amos 9:5; Micah 1:3; Habakkuk 3:4; but here the colours are more vivid, and the language more intense. In fact, the whole realm of poetry cannot show a finer feeling for nature in her wrath. We first hear the rumbling of the earth, probably earthquake preceding the storm (for volcanic phenomena of Palestine see Stanley's Sinai and Palestine, 124), or possibly only its distant threatening. Comp."Earth groans as if beneath a heavy load." . . .
