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

New Living Translation
His lightning flashes out across the world. The earth sees and trembles.

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

Berean Standard Bible
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.

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

New King James Version
His lightnings light the world; The earth sees and trembles.

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

NASB 1995
His lightnings lit up the world; The earth saw and trembled.

NASB 1977
His lightnings lit up the world; The earth saw and trembled.

Legacy Standard Bible
His lightnings light up the world; The earth sees and trembles.

Amplified Bible
His lightnings have illuminated the world; The earth has seen and trembled.

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
His lightnings lit up the world, the Earth saw and was troubled.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
His lightnings appeared to the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

Contemporary English Version
and his lightning is so bright that the earth sees it and trembles.

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

English Revised Version
His lightnings lightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
His flashes of lightning light up the world. The earth sees them and trembles.

Good News Translation
His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees it and trembles.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
His lightnings lighted up the world; The earth saw, and trembled.

Literal Standard Version
His lightnings have lightened the world, | The earth has seen, and is pained.

Majority Standard Bible
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.

New American Bible
His lightning illumines the world; the earth sees and trembles.

NET Bible
His lightning bolts light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

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

New Heart English Bible
His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

Webster's Bible Translation
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

World English Bible
His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

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

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Let the Earth Rejoice
3Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side. 4His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles. 5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.…

Cross References
Exodus 19:16
On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram's horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

2 Samuel 22:8
Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

Psalm 77:18
Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

Psalm 96:9
Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.

Psalm 104:32
He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.


Treasury of Scripture

His lightning enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

his

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

Psalm 144:5,6
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke…

Exodus 19:16-18
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled…

the earth

Psalm 104:32
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.

Psalm 114:7
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

Job 9:6
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

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Psalm 97
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(4) See Psalm 77:17-18, from which this is taken.

Verse 4. - His lightnings enlightened the world. Here the tenses change from present to past - not, however, that any past event is alluded to, but merely to mark prophetic certainty. The psalmist, rapt in vision, sees the future as past. Lightnings play a part in almost' all theophanies (Exodus 19:16; Job 37:1-5; Psalm 18:13; Psalm 77:18, etc.). The earth saw, and trembled (comp. Judges 5:4; Psalm 68:8; Psalm 114:7).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
His lightning
בְרָקָ֣יו (ḇə·rā·qāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1300: Lightning, a gleam, a flashing sword

illuminates
הֵאִ֣ירוּ (hê·’î·rū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 215: To be or become light

the world;
תֵּבֵ֑ל (tê·ḇêl)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8398: The earth, the globe, its inhabitants, a particular land

the earth
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

sees
רָאֲתָ֖ה (rā·’ă·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

and trembles.
וַתָּחֵ֣ל (wat·tā·ḥêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2342: To twist, whirl, to dance, to writhe in pain, fear, to wait, to pervert


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