Psalms 46:1
What meaning of the psalms 46:1 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 46:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."
What does Psalms 46:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."
PSALM XLVI _The confidence of believers in God_, 1-3. _The privileges of the Church_, 4, 5; _her enemies, and her helper_, 6, 7. _God's judgments in the earth_, 8, 9. _He will be exalted among th...
GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH - God is for us as a place to which we may flee for safety; a source of strength to us in danger. The first word, “refuge,” from a verb meaning to “flee,” and then “to f...
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 (Psalms 46:8). This...
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...
TITLE.. SONG. Hebrew. _shir_. One of the "Songs" referred to in Isaiah 38:20 (though not the same word). See App-65. Doubtless Hezekiah's during Sennacherib's siege. No other period of Israel's histor...
The prayer of Isaiah 33:2, "Be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble," has been answered. In the extremity of their distress, God has proved Himself the refuge and st...
_The confidence which the church hath in God. An exhortation to behold it._ To the chief musician, for the sons of Korah: A Song upon Alamoth. _Title._ שׁיר עלמות על קרח לבני למנצח _lamnatseach libn...
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...
_GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH, A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE._ Psalms 46:1.-The Church's security, because God is in her, amidst the world's convulsions: as shown in the sudden overthrow of Sennach...
46:1 Alamoth. (g-11) See 1 Chronicles 15:20 and Note....
OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH] the original of Luther's famous _Ein' feste Burg._ 2, 3. The language is figurative of stress and trouble....
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...
REFUGE AND STRENGTH. — Better, _a refuge and stronghold,_ or _a sure stronghold,_ as in Luther’s hymn, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. A VERY PRESENT HELP. — Better, _often found a help. _...
לַ † מְנַצֵּ֥חַ לִ בְנֵי ־קֹ֑רַח עַֽל ־עֲלָמֹ֥ות שִֽׁיר׃ _[Psalms 46:2]_ אֱלֹהִ֣ים לָ֭נוּ מַחֲסֶ֣ה וָ
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...
"To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon (a) Alamoth." God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in (b) trouble. (a) Which was either a musical instrument or a solemn tun...
CONTENTS This is a song or Psalm of holy triumph. The prophet exhorts the Church to make God in Christ her confidence. A reference is made, towards the close of the Psalm, from beholding the desolati...
_GOD A STRONG REFUGE_ ‘God is our refuge and strength.’ Psalms 46:1 The Psalmist who wrote these words knew the happiness of their meaning, for the life into which God does not enter cannot be, in...
1._God is our refuge and strength _Here the Psalmist begins with a general expression or sentiment, before he comes to speak of the more particular deliverance. He begins by premising that God is suff...
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....
GOD [IS] OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH,.... That is, Christ, who is God as well as man, is the "refuge" for souls to fly unto for safety; as for sensible sinners, in a view of danger, wrath, and misery, so...
Psalms 46:1 «To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. » God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. _Upon Alamoth_] _i.e._ Upon the Virginals. Virgins w...
_God is our refuge and strength_ He hath manifested himself to be so in the course of his providence in time past, and he has engaged to be so in time to come, and will not fail to fulfil his engageme...
God is our Refuge, under whose protection the Church and every individual believer is safe, and STRENGTH, the Source and Fountain of all true strength, whose almighty power can overthrow all enemies,...
1-5 This psalm encourages to hope and trust in God; in his power and providence, and his gracious presence with his church in the worst of times. We may apply it to spiritual enemies, and the encoura...
PSALM 46 THE ARGUMENT The occasion of this Psalm is thought to be that happy success, and settlement, and peace which God granted to the people of Israel in David's time, and by his means, 2SA 8 The c...
Psalms 46:1 Musician H5329 (H8764) sons H1121 Korah H7141 Song H7892 Alamoth H5961 God H430 refuge H4268 strength H5797 very H3966 present H4672 (H8738) help H5833 trouble H6869 A song - Psalms 48:1,...
GOD'S PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE IS IN HIM EVEN IN THE FACE OF RAGING WATERS (PSALMS 46:1). Psalms 46:1 ‘God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.' The Psalmist commences with an exp...
ALAMOTH Alamoth, "soprano," from almah, a virgin. Some have thought the alamoth, "virgins," were a temple choir, singing antiphonally to the sheminith, or male choir. (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 6:1)...
Psalms 46:1 I. This Psalm is a hymn concerning the kingdom of Christ and of God. It tells us something of the government which Christ has been exercising over the world ever since the beginning of it...
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...
_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...
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), consoles herself with the thought of God's might, his protecting care, and his...
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 15:20; 2 Samuel 22:17; Deuteronomy 4:7; Genesis 22:14; Hebrews 6:18; Luke 13:34; Proverbs 14:26; Proverbs 18:10; Psalms 48:1;...