18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke,(A) because the Lord descended on it in fire.(B) The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace,(C) and the whole mountain[a] trembled(D) violently.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 19:18 Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint and all the people

18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

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the earth shook,(A) the heavens poured down rain,(B)
    before God, the One of Sinai,(C)
    before God, the God of Israel.(D)

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The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

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18 Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,(A)
    your lightning(B) lit up the world;
    the earth trembled and quaked.(C)

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

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the mountains leaped(A) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?(B)
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
    you hills, like lambs?

Tremble, earth,(C) at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,

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The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

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26 At that time his voice shook the earth,(A) but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:26 Haggai 2:6

26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

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