Psalm 46

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God Is Our Refuge and Strength

¹For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.^a A song.

God is our refuge and strength,

an ever-present help in times of trouble.

¹For the one directing. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is unto us a place of refuge and strength, a help in distress surely to be found.

²Therefore we will not fear,

though the earth is transformed

and the mountains are toppled

into the depths of the seas,

²Upon thus we will not fear, with the changing of the earth, and with the shaking of the mountains into the heart of the seas—

³though their waters roar and foam

and the mountains quake in the surge.

Selah

³its waters roar and foam, and the mountains quake in its rising. Selah

⁴There is a river whose streams delight the city of God,

the holy place where the Most High dwells.

⁴there is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the Holy Place of the dwelling of the Most High.

⁵God is within her; she will not be moved.

God will help her when morning dawns.

⁵God is within her; she will not be shaken; God will help her at the turn of the morning.

⁶Nations rage, kingdoms crumble;

the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

⁶The nations raged, the kingdoms were shaken; He has given forth with His voice; the earth melts.

⁷The LORD of Hosts is with us;

the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Selah

⁷YHWH of Hosts is with us; a secure height for us is the God of Jacob. Selah

⁸Come, see the works of the LORD,

who brings devastation upon the earth.

⁸Come, see the works of YHWH, who has set devastation upon the earth.

⁹He makes wars to cease throughout the earth;

He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;

He burns the shields^a in the fire.

⁹He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; the bow He breaks, and the spear He cuts apart; the shields He burns in the fire.

¹⁰“Be still and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted over the earth.”

¹⁰“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”

¹¹The LORD of Hosts is with us;

the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Selah

¹¹YHWH of Hosts is with us; a secure height for us is the God of Jacob. Selah