Sirach 16:19
Good News Translation
The mountains will shake, and the foundations of the earth will shudder when he looks at them.

New Revised Standard Version
The very mountains and the foundations of the earth quiver and quake when he looks upon them.

Contemporary English Version
in the mountains and the foundations of the earth.

New American Bible
The roots of the mountains and the earth’s foundations— at his mere glance they quiver and quake.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling.

Sirach 16:17
In such a multitude I shall not be known: for what is my soul in such an immense creation?

Sirach 16:18
Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight,

Sirach 16:20
And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him.

Sirach 16:21
And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man shall see?

Context
Sirach 16
18Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight, 19The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling. 20And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him.…
Cross References
Sirach 16:17
In such a multitude I shall not be known: for what is my soul in such an immense creation?

Sirach 16:18
Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight,

Sirach 16:20
And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him.

Sirach 16:21
And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man shall see?



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Sirach 16:18
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