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Psa. 46:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

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Psa. 2:1‑4• ¹Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and why do the peoples meditate a vain thing?
²The kings of the earth set themselves, and the princes plot together, against Jehovah and against his anointed:
³Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us!
⁴He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision. (Psa. 2:1‑4)

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Psa. 83:2‑8• ²For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
³They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
⁴They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
⁵For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.
⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites;
⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah. (Psa. 83:2‑8)

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2 Chron. 14:9‑13• ⁹And Zerah the Ethiopian came out against him with a host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.
¹⁰And Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.
¹¹And Asa cried unto Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, it maketh no difference to thee to help, whether there be much or no power: help us, O Jehovah our God, for we rely on thee, and in thy name have we come against this multitude. Jehovah, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
¹²And Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
¹³And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to Gerar; and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that none of them was left alive; for they were crushed before Jehovah and before his army. And they carried away very much spoil. (2 Chron. 14:9‑13)

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2 Chron. 20:1,20‑24• ¹And it came to pass after this that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them certain of the Maonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
²⁰And they rose early in the morning, and went forth towards the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Jehovah your God, and ye shall be established; believe his prophets, and ye shall prosper!
²¹And he consulted with the people, and appointed singers to Jehovah, and those that should praise in holy splendour, as they went forth before the armed men, and say, Give thanks to Jehovah; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever!
²²And when they began the song of triumph and praise, Jehovah set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who had come against Judah, and they were smitten.
²³And the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to exterminate and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
²⁴And Judah came on to the mountain-watch in the wilderness, and they looked toward the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none had escaped. (2 Chron. 20:1,20‑24)

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Isa. 8:9‑10• ⁹Rage, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth: Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!
¹⁰Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: for *God is with us. (Isa. 8:9‑10)

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Isa. 37:21‑36• ²¹And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,
²²this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him: The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.
²³Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.
²⁴By thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; and I will enter into its furthest height, into the forest of its fruitful field.
²⁵I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
²⁶Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
²⁷And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.
²⁸But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
²⁹Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.
³⁰And this shall be the sign unto thee: there shall be eaten this year such as groweth of itself; and in the second year that which springeth of the same; but in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof.
³¹And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
³²for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that escape: the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.
³³Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
³⁴By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Jehovah.
³⁵And I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
³⁶And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies. (Isa. 37:21‑36)

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Isa. 14:12‑16• ¹²How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!
¹³And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of *God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;
¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:
¹⁵none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.
¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms; (Isa. 14:12‑16)

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Psa. 68:8• ⁸The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, yon Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel. (Psa. 68:8)

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Psa. 97:5• ⁵The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. (Psa. 97:5)

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Josh. 2:9,11,24• ⁹and said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given you the land, and that the dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
¹¹We heard of it, and our heart melted, and there remained no more spirit in any man because of you; for Jehovah your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
²⁴And they said to Joshua, Of a surety Jehovah has given the whole land into our hands, and even all the inhabitants of the land faint because of us. (Josh. 2:9,11,24)

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Isa. 64:1‑2• ¹Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,--that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
²--as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence! (Isa. 64:1‑2)

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Amos 9:5,13• ⁵And the Lord Jehovah of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall wholly rise up like the Nile, and sink down as the river of Egypt.
¹³Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt. (Amos 9:5,13)

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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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Hab. 3:5‑6,10‑11• ⁵Before him went the pestilence, And a burning flame went forth at his feet.
⁶He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and discomfited the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered, The everlasting hills gave way: His ways are everlasting.
¹⁰The mountains saw thee, they were in travail: Torrents of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, Lifted up its hands on high.
¹¹The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows which shot forth,--At the shining of thy glittering spear. (Hab. 3:5‑6,10‑11)

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2 Peter 3:10‑12• ¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
¹¹All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,
¹²waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt? (2 Peter 3:10‑12)

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Rev. 6:13‑14• ¹³and the stars of heaven fell upon the earth, as a fig tree, shaken by a great wind, casts its unseasonable figs.
¹⁴And the heaven was removed as a book rolled up, and every mountain and island were removed out of their places. (Rev. 6:13‑14)

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Rev. 20:11• ¹¹And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled, and place was not found for them. (Rev. 20:11)

• The heathen may rage, and their kingdoms be removed, but nothing can hinder the fulfillment of God’s purpose. God has but to speak and every enemy will melt away. (“Psalms 46” by H. Smith)

• Compare Isa. 59:19-20, Zec. 9:8, 12:8, Nah. 1:9. The Lord rises up on behalf of restored Israel and destroys the heathen armies bringing peace to the troubled world (vs. 6-11). (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.