Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 46:10
I am God. — The introduction of the Divine Protector Himself speaking just before the refrain is a fine touch of art.
I am God. — The introduction of the Divine Protector Himself speaking just before the refrain is a fine touch of art.
Verse Psalms 46:10. _BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I_ AM _GOD_] הרפו _harpu,_ _Cease_ from your provocations of the Divine justice; cease from murmuring against the dispensations of his providence; cease f...
BE STILL - The word used here - from רפה _râphâh_ - means properly to cast down; to let fall; to let hang down; then, to be relaxed, slackened, especially the hands: It is also employed in the sense...
Psalms 46 The Deliverance and What Follows _ 1. God is our Refuge and Strength (Psalms 46:1)_ 2. His coming in power and glory (Psalms 46:4) 3. What follows His manifestation ...
XLVI. GOD THE REFUGE OF HIS PEOPLE. The poem is divided into three parts by the word Selah, which also marks its close. It was further divided by the refrain which occurs after Psalms 46:6 and Psalms...
BE STILL. Desist; cease your efforts. Hebrew. _rapha._ EXALTED. Hebrew. _rum,_ so most frequently rendered....
An exhortation to reflect upon this marvellous deliverance and learn its lesson....
Jehovah speaks, admonishing the nations to desist from their vain endeavour to destroy His people, and bidding them recognise Him as the true God, who will manifest His absolute supremacy. Cp. Isaiah...
BE STILL, AND KNOW, &C.— The Psalmist here represents God as speaking with a majesty becoming him; immediately after which, he congratulates his subjects upon their having this great God for their del...
PSALMS 46 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Trust in God, Joyfully Maintained in Face of Peril, Speedily Rewarded. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 46:1-3, Trust in God held fast in presence of National Troubles that ar...
_BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD: I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE HEATHEN, I WILL BE EXALTED IN THE EARTH._ Be still, and know that I am God. His miraculous interposition for His people proved that _ YA...
Psalms 46-48 form a group which we may assign with little doubt to the reign of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib's army was suddenly destroyed (2 Kings 19:35). They all strike the same note of gratitude, co...
BE STILL] Desist from your vain efforts: cp. Psalms 4:4....
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
_[Psalms 46:11]_ הַרְפּ֣וּ וּ֭ דְעוּ כִּי ־אָנֹכִ֣י...
Psalms 46:1 THERE are two events, one or other of which probably supplies the historical basis of this and the two following psalms. One is Jehoshaphat's deliverance from the combined forces of the bo...
“OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH” Psalms 46:1 The historical origin of this psalm cannot be certainly determined. Probably it was composed when Jerusalem was beleaguered by Sennacherib's hosts, 2 Kings 18:1....
Comment on this great song of confidence seems almost unnecessary so powerfully has it taken hold on the heart of humanity, and so perfectly does it set forth the experience of trusting souls in all a...
Be (i) still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. (i) He warns them who persecute the Church to cease their cruelty: for also they will feel...
Gods. Judges appointed by the king of Persia over the Jews, &c., (Calmet) or rather the apostles, who were more than men, (St. Jerome) and exercised a greater power than any earthly monarch. (Calmet)...
What a blessed verse this is! And what a blessedness would it induce in the minds of the faithful, if they were everlastingly living under the gracious influence of it. Oh! how would it prompt our hea...
10_Be still, and know that I am God _The Psalmist seems now to turn his discourse to the enemies of the people of God, who indulge their lust of mischief and revenge upon them: for in doing injury to...
Psalms 46. The remnant, now that Messiah has appeared in glory, can celebrate what God is in favor of His people, and with the special knowledge acquired through what He has been for them in trouble....
BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I [AM] GOD,.... These words are thought by some to be spoken by the Lord to the nations of the world, to "cease from war", as the Targum renders the words; or from going up any...
Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Ver. 10. _Be still, and know, &c._] _q.d._ As you must come and see, Psalms 46:8, so come and...
_Be still_, &c. He speaks, either, 1st, To the Israelites, and commands them henceforth silently and quietly to wait upon him, without fear or diffidence; to be calm and sedate, and tremble no more; b...
Be still, desist from making war upon Jehovah's Zion, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD, the God of the Church, the only true God; I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE HEATHEN, the great Victor on the field of encounter,...
THE CHURCH'S COMFORT AND SECURITY. To the chief musician, for use in the Temple-services, for the sons of Korah, composed by a member of this talented family, a song upon Alamoth, for soprano voices,...
6-11 Come and see the effects of desolating judgments, and stand in awe of God. This shows the perfect security of the church, and is an assurance of lasting peace. Let us pray for the speedy approac...
He speaks either, 1. To the Israelites, BE STILL, i.e. Do you henceforth silently and quietly wait upon me without fear or diffidence. Or rather, 2. _To the heathen_, who had _raged_, PSALMS 46:6; and...
Psalms 46:10 still H7503 (H8685) know H3045 (H8798) God H430 exalted H7311 (H8799) nations H1471 exalted...
A CALL TO CONSIDER ALL GOD'S MERCIES AND TO RECOGNISE THAT ONE DAY HE WILL BRING EVERLASTING PEACE AND WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE NATIONS (PSALMS 46:8). Psalms 46:8 ‘Come, behold the works of YHWH,...
Psalms 46:10 The true quietism of the book of Psalms is quietism in the midst of action, quietism which only one who hears the call to act and obeys it can understand or prize. I. "The Lord of hosts...
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Song upon Alamoth. This Psalm is often called «Martin Luther's Psalm.» Whenever there was any great trouble, Luther used to say, «Let us sing the forty-six...
CONTENTS: A psalm of holy confidence in God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: God's people may count themselves safe and make themselves strong in Him in whom there is always help sufficient,...
Psalms 46:4. _A river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God._ This was the Gihon, a very copious fountain on the west of Jerusalem, like St. Winnefrid's well in Wales, or the spring at...
_Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth._ STILLNESS AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD There is a class of persons who are designated by divines a...
_Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth, _ THE DESOLATIONS OF THE LORD, THE CONSOLATIONS OF HIS SAINTS I. a declaration of what has happened. “Come, behold th...
_God is our refuge and strength._ A PSALM OF WAR AND PEACE The psalm is divided into three parts, as the Selahs at the end of the third and seventh verses indicate. The first is shorter by one verse...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 46:1. The psalm is a hymn celebrating Zion as the special city. God has pledged himself to her, and through her he will bless the world. The psalm has two stanzas, marked by...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 46:8 Since BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD is plural, readers should imagine God speaking these words to the NATIONS. This will be the means by which he makes wars cease
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah.” See Introduction to Psalms 42. “_A song upon Alamoth_.” Great uncertainty attaches to the meaning of “Alamoth.” Some are o...
EXPOSITION THIS is a psalm of consolation. Israel, in great peril (Psalms 46:1, Psalms 46:6, Psalms 46:8, Psalms 46:9), co
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea (Psalms 46:1-2);...
1 Chronicles 29:11; 1 Kings 18:36; 1 Samuel 17:46; 2 Kings 19:12;...