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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 sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. (Psa. 18:4)
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Psa. 93:3‑4• 3The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
 4The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. (Psa. 93:3‑4)
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Job 38:11• 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? (Job 38:11)
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Isa. 5:3• 3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. (Isa. 5:3)
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Isa. 17:12‑13• 12Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
 13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. (Isa. 17:12‑13)
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Jer. 5:22• 22Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? (Jer. 5:22)
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Matt. 7:25• 25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. (Matt. 7:25)
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Rev. 17:15• 15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. (Rev. 17:15)
mountains.
Psa. 114:4‑7• 4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
 5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
 6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little 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• 4Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
 5The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord 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 the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: (1 Kings 19:11)
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Job 9:5‑6• 5Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
 6Which shaketh the earth out of her 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 moved lightly. (Jer. 4:24)
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Mic. 1:4• 4And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. (Mic. 1:4)
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Nah. 1:5• 5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. (Nah. 1:5)
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Rev. 16:20• 20And every island fled away, and the 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.