Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm. New Living Translation When the earth quakes and its people live in turmoil, I am the one who keeps its foundations firm. Interlude English Standard Version When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah Berean Standard Bible When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah King James Bible The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. New King James Version The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I set up its pillars firmly. Selah New American Standard Bible “The earth and all who inhabit it are unsteady; It is I who have firmly set its pillars. Selah NASB 1995 “The earth and all who dwell in it melt; It is I who have firmly set its pillars. Selah. NASB 1977 “The earth and all who dwell in it melt; It is I who have firmly set its pillars. Selah. Legacy Standard Bible The earth and all who dwell in it melt; It is I who have firmly set its pillars. Selah. Amplified Bible “The earth and all the inhabitants of it melt [in tumultuous times]. It is I who will steady its pillars. Selah. Christian Standard Bible When the earth and all its inhabitants shake, I am the one who steadies its pillars. Selah Holman Christian Standard Bible When the earth and all its inhabitants shake, I am the One who steadies its pillars. Selah American Standard Version The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. [Selah Aramaic Bible in Plain English The Earth will be humbled and all its inhabitants; you have fashioned its inhabitants. Brenton Septuagint Translation The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: I have strengthened its pillars. Pause. Contemporary English Version The earth trembles, and its people shake; you alone keep its foundations firm. Douay-Rheims Bible The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof. English Revised Version The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. Selah GOD'S WORD® Translation When the earth and everyone who lives on it begin to melt, I will make its foundations as solid as rock. [Selah] Good News Translation Though every living creature tremble and the earth itself be shaken, I will keep its foundations firm. International Standard Version While the earth and all its inhabitants melt away, it is I who keep its pillars firm." Interlude JPS Tanakh 1917 When the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved, I Myself establish the pillars of it.' Selah Literal Standard Version The earth and all its inhabitants are melted, | I have pondered its pillars. Selah. Majority Standard Bible When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah New American Bible Though the earth and all its inhabitants quake, I make steady its pillars.” Selah NET Bible When the earth and all its inhabitants dissolve in fear, I make its pillars secure." (Selah) New Revised Standard Version When the earth totters, with all its inhabitants, it is I who keep its pillars steady. Selah New Heart English Bible The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah. Webster's Bible Translation The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. World English Bible The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah. Young's Literal Translation Melted is the earth and all its inhabitants, I -- I have pondered its pillars. Selah. Additional Translations ... Context We Give Thanks, for Your Name is Near…2“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly. 3When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah 4I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.… Cross References 1 Samuel 2:8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's, and upon them He has set the world. Job 9:6 He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble. Psalm 46:6 Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice. Isaiah 24:19 The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently. Treasury of Scripture The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. earth Psalm 60:1-3 To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again… Psalm 78:60-72 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; … 1 Samuel 31:1-7 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa… I bear 1 Samuel 18:7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. 1 Samuel 25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. 2 Samuel 5:2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. pillars 1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them. Jump to Previous Bear Dissolved Dwell Earth Establish Established Feeble Firm Firmly Hold Inhabitants Melt Melted Pillars Pondered Quake Selah Steady Support Thereof TottersJump to Next Bear Dissolved Dwell Earth Establish Established Feeble Firm Firmly Hold Inhabitants Melt Melted Pillars Pondered Quake Selah Steady Support Thereof TottersPsalm 75 1. The prophet praises God2. He promises to judge uprightly 4. He rebukes the proud by consideration of God's providence 9. He praises God, and promises to execute justice. (3) The earth . . .--Better-- "Are earth and all its inhabitants dissolved? It was I adjusted its pillars." (See Hannah's song, 1Samuel 2:8.) Though the crisis be such that all is confusion and anarchy (comp. Isaiah 24:19-20 for the figure), there is no cause for fear; there is still a Ruler in heaven, He who built up the edifice which now seems to totter to its fall. The verb rendered in the Authorised Version "bear up," is used in Job 28:15, Isaiah 40:12 in the sense of "weighing" or "measuring;" but with the same allusion to the creative work of God. Here it plainly means, so to adjust the pillars as to make them equal to the weight they have to bear. . . . Verse 3. - The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. They "melt" with fear (Psalm 44:6), either at God's coming in judgment, or at the dissolution which a hostile invasion is bringing on their land. I bear up the pillars of it. Meanwhile God upholds, and will uphold, both the moral and physical order of things. He will neither suffer the earth to be moved, nor the supports on which society depends to fail and crumble away.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew When the earthאֶ֥רֶץ (’e·reṣ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land and all וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every its dwellers יֹשְׁבֶ֑יהָ (yō·šə·ḇe·hā) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry quake, נְֽמֹגִ֗ים (nə·mō·ḡîm) Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 4127: To melt it is I אָנֹכִ֨י (’ā·nō·ḵî) Pronoun - first person common singular Strong's 595: I who bear up תִכַּ֖נְתִּי (ṯik·kan·tî) Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 8505: To balance, measure out, arrange, equalize, levelling its pillars. עַמּוּדֶ֣יהָ (‘am·mū·ḏe·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 5982: A column, a stand, platform Selah סֶּֽלָה׃ (se·lāh) Interjection Strong's 5542: Suspension, pause Links Psalm 75:3 NIVPsalm 75:3 NLT Psalm 75:3 ESV Psalm 75:3 NASB Psalm 75:3 KJV Psalm 75:3 BibleApps.com Psalm 75:3 Biblia Paralela Psalm 75:3 Chinese Bible Psalm 75:3 French Bible Psalm 75:3 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 75:3 The earth and all its inhabitants quake (Psalm Ps Psa.) |