The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
The verse portrays the earth undergoing utter breaking, dissolving, and violent displacement, a severe collapse and upheaval that leaves it shattered, radically changed, broken and unstable. In that shattered state its cities and villages lie in heaps, its mountains are moved from their places, rocks are strewn over its surface, and trees are torn up by the roots, so that the whole earth appears as a desolate wilderness. This broken condition falls upon the earth under the weight of human transgression, as part of the curse that sin has brought upon it.
It is the condition of the earth during the thousand years, when Satan with his evil angels is confined upon its desolate surface. There, amid the ruin, Satan is compelled to behold the effects of his own rebellion and the curse his work has caused.
The verse portrays the earth undergoing utter breaking, dissolving, and violent displacement, a severe collapse and upheaval that leaves it shattered, radically changed, broken and unstable. In that shattered state its cities and villages lie in heaps, its mountains are moved from their places, rocks are strewn over its surface, and trees are torn up by the roots, so that the whole earth appears as a desolate wilderness. This broken condition falls upon the earth under the weight of human transgression, as part of the curse that sin has brought upon it.
It is the condition of the earth during the thousand years, when Satan with his evil angels is confined upon its desolate surface. There, amid the ruin, Satan is compelled to behold the effects of his own rebellion and the curse his work has caused.