Hebrews 12:26 (YLT)

Passage

whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once--I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'

Nearby Context

Hebrews 12:24 and to a mediator of a new covenant--Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

Hebrews 12:25 See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking--much less we who do turn away from him who <FI>speaketh<Fi> from heaven,

Hebrews 12:26 whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once--I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'

Hebrews 12:27 and this--`Yet once' --doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

Hebrews 12:28 wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "whose", "voice", "earth", "shook", "hath", "promised", "saying", and "once--i". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "whose" and "voice", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 25's "See may ye not refuse him who..." into verse 27's "and this-- Yet once' doth make evident...", so "whose" and "voice" belong inside that flow. In Hebrews context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "whose" and "voice" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.