Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 68:8

8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, even Sinai it self [illegible: 1 word] moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Either, 1. Metonymically, the Inhabitants of those parts of the Earth, by Comparing Exod. 15. 14. Or, 2. Properly, by Comparing Psal. 114. 5, 6, 7. There was a great Earthquake, as a token of God's dreadful Presence.

(i. e.) Poured down great Showers, which accompanied those mighty Thunders, as usually it doth.

Or, dropped; which may be [illegible: 1 word] out of the former Clause, was even melted or dissolved with Fear. It is a poetical Representation, of the [illegible: 1+ letters]erribleness of God's appearance.

Marginal references: Exod. 19. 18. Judg. 5. 4. Isa. 64. 1. 3.