Psalms 46:3
1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,
though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah
4 There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
5 God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah
- KJV
- Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
- WEB
- though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
- ASV
- Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah
- DARBY
- Though the waters thereof roar [and] foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
- BLB
- its waters roar and foam, [and] the mountains quake in its rising. Selah
- ÅB
- om dets bølger bruser og skummer, og fjell bever ved dets overmot. Sela.
- OTB
- Om vannene bruser og skummer,
Om fjellene skjelver ved dets stolte bølger.
Sela - B1930
- om dets bølger bruser og skummer, og fjell bever ved dets overmot. Sela.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 93:3–4
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
Read in contextJob 9:5–6
He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
Read in contextMicah 1:4
The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Read in contextNahum 1:5
The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
Read in contextJudges 5:4–5
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
Read in contextRevelation 16:20
Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found.
Read in contextPsalms 114:4–7
the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
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