Psalm 46:3

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Summary

Psalm 46:3

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

The waters

Mountains

Bible References

The waters

The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me.

[The] rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh; [the] rivers have lifted up their {rumbling}; [the] rivers have lifted up their pounding.

and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'?

And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Ah! [The] noise of many peoples, they make a noise like [the] noise of [the] seas! And [the] roar of nations, they roar like [the] roar of mighty waters!

Do you not revere me?" {declares} Yahweh, "Do you not tremble {before me}? For I have placed [the] sand [as] a boundary for the sea, {as an everlasting limit}, and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it.

And the rain came down and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it did not collapse, because its foundation was laid on the rock.

And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages.

Mountains

The mountains skipped like rams, [the] hills like {lambs}.

Yahweh, when you went down from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down water.

He said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh." Suddenly Yahweh was passing by, with a great and strong wind ripping the mountains and crushing rocks before Yahweh; [but] Yahweh [was] not in the wind. After the wind, [there was] an earthquake; [but] Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

"[He is the one] who moves mountains, and they do not know [how], who overturns them in his anger.

I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all of the hills were jolted to and fro.

The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart. The earth heaves before him-- the world and all her inhabitants.

And every island fled, and mountains were not found.