Jeremiah 4:24
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New International Version (©2011)
I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I looked at the mountains and hills, and they trembled and shook.

English Standard Version (©2001)
I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, And all the hills moved to and fro.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills shook.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I looked at the mountains; they were quaking, and all the hills moved back and forth.

NET Bible (©2006)
I looked at the mountains and saw that they were shaking. All the hills were swaying back and forth!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I see the mountains. They are shaking, and the hills are swaying.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.

American King James Version
I beheld the mountains, and, see, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

American Standard Version
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I looked upon the mountains, and behold they trembled: and all the hills were troubled.

Darby Bible Translation
I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently.

English Revised Version
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.

Webster's Bible Translation
I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

World English Bible
I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.

Young's Literal Translation
I have looked to the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jewish nation would not be final. Every end of our comforts is not a full end. Though the Lord may correct his people very severely, yet he will not cast them off. Ornaments and false colouring would be of no avail. No outward privileges or profession, no contrivances would prevent destruction. How wretched the state of those who are like foolish children in the concerns of their souls! Whatever we are ignorant of, may the Lord make of good understanding in the ways of godliness. As sin will find out the sinner, so sorrow will, sooner or later, find out the secure.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 24. - Moved lightly; rather, moved to and fro.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,.... At the presence of God, at the tokens of his displeasure, and at his awful vengeance in the destruction of the Jews, as they are sometimes said to do, Psalm 68:8,

and all the hills moved lightly; so Kimchi's father says the word used has the signification of lightness; though Jarchi, from Menachem, explains it, they were plucked up, and thrown out of their place; and some render it, were pulled down and destroyed, so the Targum. Mountains and hills are most stable, and not easily moved, wherefore this is said, to aggravate the desolation and destruction.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

24. mountains—(Isa 5:25).

moved lightly—shook vehemently.

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Lamentation for Judah
…23I beheld the earth, and, see, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24I beheld the mountains, and, see, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25I beheld, and, see, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. …

Revelation 6:14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Exodus 19:18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
Isaiah 5:25 Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Jeremiah 9:10 I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds have all fled and the animals are gone.
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath.
Ezekiel 38:20 The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground.