New Revised Standard Version
Then the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax near the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.

Contemporary English Version
Mountains will melt beneath his feet like wax beside a fire. Valleys will vanish like water rushing down a ravine.

New American Bible
The mountains melt under him and the valleys split open, Like wax before the fire, like water poured down a slope.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he will come down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth.

For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he will come down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth.

the mountains.

Judges 5:4 O Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, and passedst by the regions of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens and clouds dropped water.

Psalm 97:5 The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.

Isaiah 64:1-3 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence. . . .

Amos 9:5 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

Nahum 1:5 The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and the earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.

Habakkuk 3:6,10 He stood and measured the earth. He beheld, and melted the nations: and the ancient mountains were crushed to pieces. The hills of the world were bowed down by the journeys of his eternity. . . .

2 Peter 3:10-12 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up. . . .

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found for them

the valleys.

Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of Olives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the west with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be separated to the north, and half thereof to the south.

as wax.

Psalm 68:2 As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

a steep place.