Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 60:2

"Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh." — Psalms 60:2 (ASV)

Earth. —Rather, land; since, though the image is drawn from an earthquake, in which the solid ground trembles and buildings totter and fall , the convulsion described is political, not physical.