Psalm 97:4 His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

English Standard Version
His lightnings light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

New American Standard Bible
His lightnings lit up the world; The earth saw and trembled.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

International Standard Version
His lightning bolts light the world; the earth sees and shakes.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and trembled.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Lightened have His lightnings the world, The earth hath seen, and is pained.

Cross References

Exodus 19:16
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightning, and a thick cloud on the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

2 Samuel 22:8
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

Psalm 77:18
The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightning lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

Psalm 96:9
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

Psalm 104:32
He looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the hills, and they smoke.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

97:1-7 Though many have been made happy in Christ, still there is room. And all have reason to rejoice in Christ's government. There is a depth in his counsels, which we must not pretend to fathom; but still righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. Christ's government, though it might be matter of joy to all, will yet be matter of terror to some; but it is their own fault that it is so. The most resolute and daring opposition will be baffled at the presence of the Lord. And the Lord Jesus will ere long come, and put an end to idol worship of every kind.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3-5. The attending illustrations of God's awful justice on enemies (Ps 83:14) are seen in the disclosures of His almighty power on the elements of nature (compare Ps 46:2; 77:17; Hab 3:6, &c.).