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Psalm 60:2
You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
2You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
3You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
4You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
Notice
The trembling land pictures a people's ruin under God's anger, and their plea for repair goes to the same God who has torn it.
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2 Chronicles 7:14if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive …Psalm 60 asks God to mend the land; Chronicles promises healing for the land when God's people humble themselves, pray, seek him, and turn.
Isaiah 30:26Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the …The psalm asks God to mend fractures, and Isaiah describes the LORD binding up his people's fracture.
Hosea 6:1“Come! Let’s return to the LORD; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.Both passages turn to the God who has torn his people, looking to him for healing.
Ezekiel 34:16“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was …The psalm's plea to mend fractures shares Ezekiel's language of God binding up what is broken.
Jeremiah 4:24I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.Both passages describe unstable ground: the land quakes in the psalm, while Jeremiah sees mountains trembling and hills moving.
Jeremiah 48:38On all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says the …Both passages attribute a people's devastation to God, with a torn land in the psalm and a broken vessel in Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 10:10But the LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his …The psalm addresses God as the one who makes the land tremble; Jeremiah describes the earth trembling at the LORD's wrath.
Isaiah 5:25Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead …Both passages describe trembling land amid God's anger against his people, though the psalm turns toward a plea for repair.
Psalm 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.Both psalms describe the earth trembling under God's action, with anger named in their accounts.
Job 9:6He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.Both texts name God as the one who shakes the earth, making even its apparent stability give way.
Matthew 27:51Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.Both passages describe quaking and rupture: the psalm's land is torn, and Matthew's rocks split.
Jeremiah 30:17For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says the LORD, “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no …The psalm asks God to repair what is fractured; Jeremiah records the LORD's promise to heal his people's wounds.
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Fear for the future. injustice and anger. feeling distant from God.
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The plea reaches God while the land still quakes. David asks the one who tore it to mend it; the verse leaves that request awaiting an answer.
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