Psalms 46:3
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
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 floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Read in contextJob 9:5–6
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Read in contextMicah 1:4
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Read in contextNahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Read in contextJudges 5:4–5
LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
Read in contextRevelation 16:20
And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
Read in contextPsalms 114:4–7
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
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