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God Is Our Refuge and Strength

Psalms 46:6

In 11 translations

BSB
Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
KJV
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
WEB
The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted.
ASV
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.
LSV
Nations have been troubled, || Kingdoms have been moved, || He has given forth with His voice—earth melts.
YLT
Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.
DBY
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
DRC45:7
Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.
GNV
When the nations raged, and the kingdomes were moued, God thundred, and the earth melted.
JPS46:7
Nations were in tumult, kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
LXXE45:7
The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, the earth shook.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC46:7
הָמ֣וּ ג֭וֹיִם מָ֣טוּ מַמְלָכ֑וֹת נָתַ֥ן בְּ֝קוֹל֗וֹ תָּמ֥וּג אָֽרֶץ׃KJV:Ps.46.6We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
LXX-Br45:7
Ἐταράχθησαν ἔθνη, ἔκλιναν βασιλεῖαι, ἔδωκε φωνὴν αὐτοῦ, ἐσαλεύθη ἡ γῆ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Amos 9:5The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn— all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
  • Psalms 18:13The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.
  • Habakkuk 3:5–6Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps. He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
  • Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
  • 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.
  • 2 Peter 3:10–12But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this…
  • Joel 2:11The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?
  • Psalms 2:1–4Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One: “Let us break Their chains and cast away…
  • Amos 9:13“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
  • 2 Chronicles 20:1After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.
  • Psalms 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
  • 2 Chronicles 14:9–13Then Zerah the Cushite came against them with an army of 1,000,000 men and 300 chariots, and they advanced as far as Mareshah. So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in the Valley of Zephathah…
  • Psalms 68:33to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.
  • Revelation 6:13–14and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind. The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
  • Jeremiah 25:30So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them: ‘The LORD will roar from on high; He will raise His voice from His holy habitation. He will roar loudly over His pasture; like those who tread the…
  • Joshua 2:9and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.

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

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 46:7 in some Bibles
  • 46:6 in most Bibles

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