Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThe mountains will melt beneath His feet and the valleys will crack open—like wax before a flame, like floodwaters rushing headlong down a steep slope.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GThe mountains will melt beneath Him, the valleys will split apart—like wax before fire, like water cascading down a steep hillside.
KJV
King James VersionAnd the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThe mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Footnotes
וְנָמַסּוּ (venamassu, 'will melt') echoes the theophanic language of Psalm 97:5 and Judges 5:5 ('the mountains flowed before YHWH'). In ancient Near Eastern cosmology, creation itself convulsing at the Creator's approach signals the undoing of the very order He established—this is not decorative poetry but a claim about the magnitude of what is coming.
