2 Samuel 22:8

And the earth was troubled and quaked, 1 And the foundations of heaven were confounded and torn asunder, 1 Because the Lord was wroth with them. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

In Context

7When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord, 1 And will cry to my God, 1 And he shall hear my voice out of his temple, 1 And my cry shall come into his ears. 1

9There went up a smoke in his wrath, 1 And fire out of his mouth devours: 1 Coals were kindled at it. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 23:7And a man shall not labor among them; 1 And one shall have that which is fully armed with iron, 1 And the staff of a spear, 1 And he shall burn them with fire, and they shall be burned in their shame.

Psalms 18:7His going forth is from the extremity of heaven, 1 And his circuit to the other end of heaven: 1 And no one shall be hidden from his heat. 1

Psalms 77:19They spoke also against God, and said, 1 Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness? 1

Nahum 1:5The mountains quake at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell in it.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51

David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →

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