Know the Text⌕

Reading as Seek: to learn Scripture and its teachings. Same facts, warmer framing.

Read›Psalms›Chapter 46

God Is Our Refuge and Strength

Psalms 46:3

In 11 translations

BSB
though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah
KJV
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
WEB
though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
ASV
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. [Selah
LSV
Roar—troubled are its waters, || Mountains shake in its pride. Selah.
YLT
Roar — troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.
DBY
Though the waters thereof roar [and] foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
DRC45:4
Their waters roared and were troubled: the mountains were troubled with his strength.
GNV
Though the waters thereof rage and be troubled, and the mountaines shake at the surges of the same. Selah,
JPS46:4
Though the waters thereof roar and foam, though the mountains shake at the swelling thereof. Selah
LXXE45:4
Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by his might. Pause.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Original-language editions

WLC46:4
יֶהֱמ֣וּ יֶחְמְר֣וּ מֵימָ֑יו יִֽרְעֲשֽׁוּ־הָרִ֖ים בְּגַאֲוָת֣וֹ סֶֽלָה׃KJV:Ps.46.3
LXX-Br45:4
Ἤχησαν καὶ ἐταράχθησαν τὰ ὕδατα αὐτῶν, ἐταράχθησαν τὰ ὄρη ἐν τῇ κραταιότητι αὐτοῦ. διάψαλμα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves. Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.
  • Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but…
  • Job 9:5–6He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger. He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.
  • Micah 1:4The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
  • Judges 5:4–5O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water. The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai,…
  • Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
  • Revelation 16:20Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found.
  • Psalms 114:4–7the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back, O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs? Tremble, O earth, at the presence…
  • Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
  • Matthew 7:25The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
  • Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
  • Isaiah 5:3“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
  • 1 Kings 19:11Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD…
  • Isaiah 17:12–13Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters. The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far…
  • Revelation 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
  • Jeremiah 4:24I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 46:4 in some Bibles
  • 46:3 in most Bibles

Report a problem

Found something wrong, unsourced or unfair? Tell us; every report is read. Please don’t include personal information.

↑