He stood and measured the earth, calmly standing, amidst the general commotion, as the Judge of the world, measuring the countries and their doings, or causing them to shake in terror, in order to execute judgment; He beheld and drove asunder the nations, making the heathen tremble; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, or, "the primeval mountains burst asunder," dissolving in dust, the perpetual hills did bow, the hills of the early world sink down. His ways are everlasting, or, "the paths of olden time, He follows them. " As He once came in earthquakes and terrible manifestations of His majesty in order to make Israel His covenant nation, so He may once more be expected to come to Judgment.

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