Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
The psalm belongs to David's conflicts and battles surrounding his wars. It sets out his motives and experiences in those battles. Its picture of the distress of the land is of God shaking and breaking it.
Trembling, breaking, and shaking there describe the physical earth quaking. Shaking means to tremble or quake as in an earthquake. That convulsion and distress of the land is God's own act of shaking and breaking it. The land is broken open and left with breaches needing healing, and the plea is for God to heal those breaches in the shaking land.
The psalm belongs to David's conflicts and battles surrounding his wars. It sets out his motives and experiences in those battles. Its picture of the distress of the land is of God shaking and breaking it.
Trembling, breaking, and shaking there describe the physical earth quaking. Shaking means to tremble or quake as in an earthquake. That convulsion and distress of the land is God's own act of shaking and breaking it. The land is broken open and left with breaches needing healing, and the plea is for God to heal those breaches in the shaking land.