Lexicon :: Strong's H7264 - rāḡaz

So he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, “See that you do not quarrel on the journey [about how to explain this to our father].”

“The peoples have heard [about You], they tremble;

Anguish and fear has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am greatly distressed; for the Philistines are making war against me, and God has left me and no longer answers me, either through prophets or by dreams; therefore I have called you to make known to me what I should do.”

[fn]The king was deeply moved and went to the upper room over the gate and wept [in sorrow]. And this is what he said as he walked: “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! [fn]How I wish that I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

“Then the earth shook and quaked,

The foundations of the heavens trembled

And were shaken, because He was angry.

‘But I [the LORD] know your sitting down [O Sennacherib],

Your going out, your coming in,

And your raging against Me.

Who shakes the earth out of its place,

And its pillars tremble;

“The tents of the destroyers prosper;

And those who provoke God are [apparently] secure,

Whom God brings into their power.

Tremble [with anger or fear], and do not sin;

Meditate in your heart upon your bed and be still [reflect on your sin and repent of your rebellion]. Selah.

Then the earth shook and quaked,

The foundations of the mountains trembled;

They were shaken because He was indignant and angry.

The waters [of the Red Sea] saw You, O God;

The waters saw You, they were in anguish;

The deeps also trembled.

The voice of Your thunder was in the [fn]whirlwind;

The lightnings illumined the world;

The earth trembled and shook.

The LORD reigns, let the peoples tremble [with submissive wonder]!

He sits enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake!

If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish and arrogant man,

The foolish man [ignores logic and fairness and] only rages or laughs, and there is no peace (rest, agreement).

Under three things the earth is disquieted and quakes,

And under four it cannot bear up:

Therefore the anger of the LORD has burned against His people,

And He has stretched out His hand against them and has struck them down.

And the mountains trembled, and their dead bodies lay like rubbish in the middle of the streets.

In spite of all this God’s anger is not turned away,

But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;

And the earth will be shaken from its place

At the wrath of the LORD of hosts

In the day of His burning anger.

“[fn]Sheol below is excited about you to meet you when you come [you tyrant of Babylon];

It stirs up the spirits of the dead [to greet you], all the leaders of the earth;

It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones [in astonishment at your fall].

“Those who see you will gaze at you,

They will consider you, saying,

‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,

Who shook kingdoms,

He has stretched out His hand over the sea,

He has shaken the kingdoms;

The LORD has given a command concerning Canaan to destroy her strongholds and her fortresses [like Tyre and Sidon].

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim,

He will be stirred up as in the Valley of Gibeon,

To do His work, His unusual and incredible work,

And to accomplish His work, His extraordinary work.

In little more than a year

You will tremble [with anxiety], you unsuspecting and complacent women;

For the vintage has ended,

And the harvest will not come.

“But I know your sitting down

And your going out and your coming in [every detail of your life],

And your raging against Me.

As [sure as] fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil—

To make Your name known to Your adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

“Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is His name.

He will most certainly plead their case and defend their cause

So that He may bring rest to their land,

But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.

Blow the trumpet in Zion [warning of impending judgment],

Sound an alarm on My holy mountain [Zion]!

Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble and shudder in fear,

For the [judgment] day of the LORD is coming;

It is close at hand,

The earth quakes before them,

The heavens tremble,

The sun and the moon grow dark

And the stars lose their brightness.

“Because of this [coming judgment] will the land not quake

And everyone mourn who dwells in it?

Indeed, all of it shall rise up like the Nile,

And it will be tossed around [from the impact of judgment]

And [afterward] subside again like the Nile of Egypt.

They shall lick the dust like a serpent;

Like crawling things of the earth

They shall come trembling out of their fortresses and hiding places.

They shall turn and come with fear and dread to the LORD our God

And they shall be afraid and stand in awe before You [O LORD].

I [Habakkuk, in my vision] saw the tents of Cushan under distress;

The tent curtains of the land of Midian were trembling.

I heard and my whole inner self trembled;

My lips quivered at the sound.

Decay and rottenness enter my bones,

And I tremble in my place.

Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress,

For the people to arise who will invade and attack us.