Psalms 46:3
What meaning of the psalms 46:3 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 46:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah."
What does Psalms 46:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah."
Verse Psalms 46:3. _THOUGH THE WATERS THEREOF ROAR_] _Waters_, in prophetic language, signify people; and, generally, people in a state of political commotion, here signified by the term _roar_. And b...
THOUGH THE WATERS THEREOF ROAR AND BE TROUBLED - The waters of the sea. The idea is, that they would not be afraid though everything should be in commotion, and be as unsettled as the restless waves o...
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...
WATERS THEREOF ROAR. Figure of speech _Hypocatastasis_ (App-6), implying the raging of the Assyrian host without. ROAR. Same word as "raged" (Psalms 46:6). SELAH. Connecting the roaring of the water...
Secure under His protection God's people have nothing to fear, even though the solid earth were convulsed, and rent asunder....
THOUGH THE WATERS THEREOF ROAR— We have before observed, that it is familiar with David to consider a vast host of the enemy under the idea of a flood of waters; a noble instance of which we have in t...
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...
_THOUGH THE WATERS THEREOF ROAR AND BE TROUBLED, THOUGH THE MOUNTAINS SHAKE WITH THE SWELLING THEREOF. SELAH._ (Though) the waters thereof roar, and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the s...
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...
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...
THOUGH THE WATERS... — The original is very expressive in its conciseness: “They roar, they foam, its waters.” Comp. Homer’s equally concise description, including in three words the “rush,” the “sw...
_[Psalms 46:4]_ יֶהֱמ֣וּ יֶחְמְר֣וּ מֵימָ֑יו יִֽרְעֲשֽׁוּ ־הָרִ֖ים בְּ גַאֲוָתֹ֣ו סֶֽלָה׃...
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...
[Though] the waters thereof (d) roar [and] be troubled, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. (d) Though the afflictions rage, yet the rivers of God's mercies bring sufficien...
That blessed scripture in which Jehovah saith by his servant the prophet, that he hath laid in Zion for a foundation, a tried stone, serves to explain the nature of what this verse saith concerning Go...
3_Though the waters thereof roar, _etc This verse ought to be read in connection with the verse which follows, because it is necessary to complete the sense, as if it had been said: Though the waters...
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....
[THOUGH] THE WATERS THEREOF ROAR [AND] BE TROUBLED,.... The noise of which causes men's hearts to fail them for fear, Luke 21:25; [THOUGH] THE MOUNTAINS SHAKE WITH THE SWELLING THEREOF. All these fi...
__ Psalms 46:3 _[Though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah._ Ver. 3. _Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled_] Heb. Be...
_Therefore will not we fear_ They that, with a holy reverence, fear God, need not, with any amazement, be afraid of any power of earth or hell. _If God be for us, who can be against us?_ It is our dut...
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,...
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...
Though the sea be very tempestuous, and its waters (by which a multitude of people is oft signified, as REVELATION 17:1,15) rage, to Wit, against us, as appears from the following verses. Though its r...
Psalms 46:3 waters H4325 roar H1993 (H8799) troubled H2560 (H8799) mountains H2022 shake H7493 (H8799) swelling H1346 Selah H5542 the waters - Psalms 18:4, Psalms 93:3-4; Job 38:11; Isaiah 5:3,...
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...
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 Kings 19:11; Isaiah 17:12; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 5:3; Jeremiah 4:24; Jeremiah 5:22; Job 38:11; Job 9:5; Job 9:6; Judges 5:4;...