New Revised Standard Version
so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

Contemporary English Version
Did it take hold of the earth and shake out the wicked like dust from a rug?

New American Bible
For taking hold of the ends of the earth, till the wicked are shaken from it?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

take

Psalm 19:4-6 Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world. . . .

Psalm 139:9-12 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea: . . .

ends.

Job 37:3 He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends of the earth.

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the wicked

Job 24:13-17 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths. . . .

Exodus 14:27 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves.

Psalm 104:21,22,35 The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God. . . .