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Psalm 46

Psa. 46:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Though the waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
thereof roar
hamah (Hebrew #1993)
to make a loud sound like Engl. "hum"); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor
KJV usage: clamorous, concourse, cry aloud, be disquieted, loud, mourn, be moved, make a noise, rage, roar, sound, be troubled, make in tumult, tumultuous, be in an uproar.
Pronounce: haw-maw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1949)
and be troubled
chamar (Hebrew #2560)
properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); as denominative (from 2564) to smear with pitch
KJV usage: daub, befoul, be red, trouble.
Pronounce: khaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, though the mountains
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
shake
ra`ash (Hebrew #7493)
to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), partic. through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust)
KJV usage: make afraid, (re-)move, quake, (make to) shake, (make to) tremble.
Pronounce: raw-ash
Origin: a primitive root
with the swelling
ga`avah (Hebrew #1346)
arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament
KJV usage: excellency, haughtiness, highness, pride, proudly, swelling.
Pronounce: gah-av-aw'
Origin: from 1342
thereof. Selah
celah (Hebrew #5542)
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV usage: Selah.
Pronounce: seh'-law
Origin: from 5541
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Ministry on This Verse

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the waters.
Psa. 18:4• 4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. (Psa. 18:4)
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Psa. 93:3‑4• 3The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.
 4Jehovah on high is mightier than the voices of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea. (Psa. 93:3‑4)
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Job 38:11• 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? (Job 38:11)
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Isa. 5:3• 3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. (Isa. 5:3)
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Isa. 17:12‑13• 12Ha! a tumult of many peoples! they make a noise as the noise of the seas;--and the rushing of nations! they rush as the rushing of mighty waters.
 13The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind: (Isa. 17:12‑13)
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Jer. 5:22• 22Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it? (Jer. 5:22)
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Matt. 7:25• 25and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock. (Matt. 7:25)
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Rev. 17:15• 15And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. (Rev. 17:15)
mountains.
Psa. 114:4‑7• 4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
 5What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?
 6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye hills, like lambs?
 7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the +God of Jacob, (Psa. 114:4‑7)
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Judg. 5:4‑5• 4Jehovah, when thou wentest forth from Seir, When thou marchedst out of the fields of Edom, The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.
 5The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah, That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel. (Judg. 5:4‑5)
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1 Kings 19:11• 11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah. And behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Jehovah: Jehovah was not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: Jehovah was not in the earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11)
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Job 9:5‑6• 5Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;
 6Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble; (Job 9:5‑6)
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Jer. 4:24• 24I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently. (Jer. 4:24)
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Mic. 1:4• 4And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place. (Mic. 1:4)
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Nah. 1:5• 5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein. (Nah. 1:5)
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Rev. 16:20• 20And every island fled, and mountains were not found; (Rev. 16:20)
• The roar of the masses, in revolution against every form of constitutional government, strikes terror into the hearts of men “for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth” (Isa. 5:26-30; Luke 21:26). Nevertheless, having God for their refuge, the godly can say, “Therefore will not we fear.” (“Psalms 46” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Though the waters thereof roar and foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.