The Lord Visits Sinai

18 (A)Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it (B)in fire; and its smoke ascended like (C)the smoke of a furnace, and (D)the entire mountain [a]quaked violently.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 19:18 Or trembled

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

22 (A)For a fire has flared in My anger,
And it burns to the lowest part of [a]Sheol,
(B)And devours the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:22 I.e., the netherworld

22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,(A)
    one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.(B)
It will devour(C) the earth and its harvests(D)
    and set afire the foundations of the mountains.(E)

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