Our common version is no doubt the best, and is materially followed by Newcome, Henderson, and many others. Retaining the tense of the passage, I would render the clause thus, Yet once, shortly will it be, And I will shake, etc. “Shortly will it be,” [מעט היא] (shortly it) may be taken as a parenthesis. Yet once more, in a short time—Newcome. Yet once, within a little,—Henderson. The shaking of the heavens, earth, sea, and dry land is explained, according to the common manner of the Prophets, in the next verse, by shaking of all nations: the material world is named in the first instance, while its inhabitants are intended. So Henderson very properly renders the [מ] at the beginning of the seventh verse, “Yea.”—Ed.