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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• 4Pains of death encompassed me,{HR}And streams of wickedness terrify me. (Psa. 18:4)
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Psa. 93:3‑4• 3The floods (rivers) lifted up,{HR}O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice;{HR}The floods lift up their roaring.
 4Above the voices of many mighty waters,{HR}Breakers of the sea, mighty [is] Jehovah on high. (Psa. 93:3‑4)
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Job 38:11• 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther,{HR}And here let one set against the pride of thy waves? (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• 12Woe to a tumult of many peoples, [which] roar like the roaring of the seas; and 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 he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling [dust] before the storm. (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 descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it fell not; for it had been founded upon the rock. (Matt. 7:25)
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Rev. 17:15• 15And he saith to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. (Rev. 17:15)
mountains.
Psa. 114:4‑7• 4The mountains skipped like rams,{HR}The hills like lambs.
 5What ailed ([was] to) thee, thou (the) sea, that thou didst flee?{HR}Thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?
 6Ye mountains, skipped ye like rams?{HR}Ye hills like lambs?
 7At the presence of the Lord tremble, O earth,{HR}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,{HR}When thou marchedst out of the fields of Edom,{HR}The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped,{HR}Yea, the clouds dropped water.{HR}
 5The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah,{HR}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 brake in pieces the rocks before Jehovah; but Jehovah was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but Jehovah was not in the earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11)
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Job 9:5‑6• 5He removeth mountains, and they know not{HR}That he hath overturned them in his wrath;
 6He shaketh the earth out of its place,{HR}And the pillars of it rock themselves; (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 no mountains were 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.” (“Psalm 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Its waters roar, they are troubled;{HR}The mountains tremble with its pride. Selah.