1 Chronicles 16:30

THE MESSAGE

God is serious business, take him seriously; he's put the earth in place and it's not moving. So let Heaven rejoice, let Earth be jubilant, and pass the word among the nations, " God reigns!" Let Ocean, all teeming with life, bellow, let Field and all its creatures shake the rafters; Then the trees in the forest will add their applause to all who are pleased and present before God —he's on his way to set things right!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
let the whole earth tremble before him.The world is firmly established;it cannot be shaken.

Hebrew Names Version
Tremble before him, all the eretz: The world also is established that it can't be moved.

King James Version
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

English Standard Version
tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

New Century Version
Tremble before him, everyone on earth. The earth is set, and it cannot be moved.

New English Translation
Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is established, it cannot be moved.

Amplified Bible
Tremble [reverently] before Him, all the earth; The world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

New American Standard Bible
Tremble before Him, all the earth; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

World English Bible
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it can't be moved.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Tremble ye before him, al the earth: surely the world shalbe stable and not moue.

Legacy Standard Bible
Tremble before Him, all the earth;Indeed, the world is established, it will not be shaken.

Berean Standard Bible
tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone on earth, now tremble!" The world stands firm, never to be shaken.

Complete Jewish Bible
Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is firmly established, immovable.

Darby Translation
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established, it shall not be moved.

Easy-to-Read Version
Everyone on earth should tremble before him! But the world stands firm and cannot be moved.

George Lamsa Translation
Tremble before him all the earth; the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

Good News Translation
tremble before him, all the earth! The earth is set firmly in place and cannot be moved.

Lexham English Bible
Tremble before him, all the earth; surely the world shall not be shaken.

Literal Translation
Tremble before Him, all the earth; yea, the earth is established, it shall not be moved!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let the whole earth stode in awe of him: he hath made the compase of the worlde so fast, that it can not be moued.

American Standard Version
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it cannot be moved.

Bible in Basic English
Be in fear before him, all the earth: the world is ordered so that it may not be moved.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let all the earth feare him: surely the world shalbe stable and not moue.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Tremble before Him, all the earth; the world also is established that it cannot be moved.

King James Version (1611)
Feare before him all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not mooued.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let the whole earth fear before him; let the earth be established, and not be moved.

English Revised Version
Tremble before him, all the earth: the world also is stablished that it cannot be moved.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Al erthe be mouyd fro his face; for he foundide the world vnmouable.

Update Bible Version
Tremble before him, all the earth: Indeed, the world will be established, it will not be moved.

Webster's Bible Translation
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

New King James Version
Tremble before Him, all the earth. The world also is firmly established, It shall not be moved.

New Living Translation
Let all the earth tremble before him. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken.

New Life Bible
Shake with fear before Him, all the earth. Yes, the world is made to last. It will not be moved.

New Revised Standard
tremble before him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it shall never be moved.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Tremble at his presence, all the earth, But the world, shall be established, it shall not be shaken.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let all the earth be moved at his presence: for he hath founded the world immoveable.

Revised Standard Version
tremble before him, all the earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved.

Young's Literal Translation
Be pained before Him, all the earth:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Tremble before Him, all the earth; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

Contextual Overview

⁷ That was the day that David inaugurated regular worship of praise to God , led by Asaph and his company. ⁸Thank God ! Call out his Name! Tell the whole world who he is and what he's done! Sing to him! Play songs for him! Broadcast all his wonders! Revel in his holy Name, God -seekers, be jubilant! Study God and his strength, seek his presence day and night; Remember all the wonders he performed, the miracles and judgments that came out of his mouth. Seed of Israel his servant! Children of Jacob, his first choice! He is God , our God; wherever you go you come on his judgments and decisions. He keeps his commitments across thousands of generations, the covenant he commanded, The same one he made with Abraham, the very one he swore to Isaac; He posted it in big block letters to Jacob, this eternal covenant with Israel: "I give you the land of Canaan, this is your inheritance; Even though you're not much to look at, a few straggling strangers." ²⁰They wandered from country to country, camped out in one kingdom after another; But he didn't let anyone push them around, he stood up for them against bully-kings: "Don't you dare touch my anointed ones, don't lay a hand on my prophets." ²³Sing to God , everyone and everything! Get out his salvation news every day! Publish his glory among the godless nations, his wonders to all races and religions. And why? Because God is great—well worth praising! No god or goddess comes close in honor. All the popular gods are stuff and nonsense, but God made the cosmos! Splendor and majesty flow out of him, strength and joy fill his place. ²⁸Shout Bravo! to God , families of the peoples, in awe of the Glory, in awe of the Strength: Bravo! Shout Bravo! to his famous Name, lift high an offering and enter his presence! Stand resplendent in his robes of holiness! ³⁰God is serious business, take him seriously; he's put the earth in place and it's not moving. So let Heaven rejoice, let Earth be jubilant, and pass the word among the nations, " God reigns!" Let Ocean, all teeming with life, bellow, let Field and all its creatures shake the rafters; Then the trees in the forest will add their applause to all who are pleased and present before God —he's on his way to set things right! ³⁴Give thanks to God —he is good and his love never quits. Say, "Save us, Savior God, round us up and get us out of these godless places, So we can give thanks to your holy Name, and bask in your life of praise." Blessed be God , the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then everybody said, "Yes! Amen!" and "Praise God !"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

before him: 1 Chronicles 16:23, 1 Chronicles 16:25, Psalms 96:9, Revelation 11:15

stable: Psalms 33:9, Psalms 93:1, Psalms 148:5, Psalms 148:6, Isaiah 49:8, Jeremiah 10:12, Colossians 1:17, Hebrews 1:3

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 8:12 - fear before

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a service out of which grew the more elaborate service of the temple. The language of much of the passage is remarkably archaic, and there can be no reasonable doubt that it is in the main an extract from a record of the time of David.

1 Chronicles 16:5

The occurrence of the name “Jeiel” twice in this list is considered suspicious. Hence, the first “Jeiel” is thought to be a corrupt reading for “Aziel” 1 Chronicles 15:20, or “Jaaziel” 1 Chronicles 15:18.

1 Chronicles 16:8

The Psalm here put before us by the Chronicler, as sung liturgically by Asaph and his brethren on the day of the ark’s entrance into Jerusalem, accords closely with the passages in the present Book of Psalms noted in the marg reff.

It is, apparently, a thanksgiving service composed for the occasion out of Psalms previously existing.

1 Chronicles 16:39

This is the first mention that we have of Gibeon as the place at which the tabernacle of the congregation now rested. Previously it had been at Nob 1 Samuel 21:1-6, from where it was removed probably at the time of the slaughter of the priests by Doeg 1 Samuel 22:18-19. It is uncertain whether Gibeon was regarded as a “high place” before the transfer to it of the tabernacle: hut thenceforth, until the completion of Solomon’s Temple, it was the “great high place” 1 Kings 3:4 - a second center of the national worship which for above 50 years was divided between Gibeon and Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 16:40

Upon the altar of the burnt offering - The original altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:1-8 continued at Gibeon with the tabernacle 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:5. David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 16:1. The sacrifices commanded by the Law were, it appears, offered at the former place; at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices.

1 Chronicles 16:41

The rest ... - Rather, “the rest of the chosen ones, who were mentioned by name.” The “chosen ones” were “mentioned by name” in 1 Chronicles 15:17-24. A portion of them, namely, those named in 1 Chronicles 16:5-6, conducted the service in Jerusalem; the remainder were employed in the worship at Gibeon.