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Psalm 46

Psa. 46:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The heathen
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
raged
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)
, the kingdoms
mamlakah (Hebrew #4467)
dominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
KJV usage: kingdom, king's, reign, royal.
Pronounce: mam-law-kaw'
Origin: from 4427
were moved
mowt (Hebrew #4131)
to waver; by implication , to slip, shake, fall
KJV usage: be carried, cast, be out of course, be fallen in decay, X exceedingly, fall(-ing down), be (re-)moved, be ready, shake, slide, slip.
Pronounce: mote
Origin: a primitive root
: he uttered
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
his voice
qowl (Hebrew #6963)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
KJV usage: + aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-)claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.
Pronounce: kole
Origin: or qol {kole}
, the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
melted
muwg (Hebrew #4127)
to melt, i.e. literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint)
KJV usage: consume, dissolve, (be) faint(-hearted), melt (away), make soft.
Pronounce: moog
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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heathen.
Psa. 2:1‑4• 1Why have the heathen raged,{HR}And do the people meditate a vain thing?
 2The kings of the earth set themselves,{HR}And the princes have consulted together,{HR}Against Jehovah and against his anointed:
 3"Let us break their bands,{HR}And cast away their cords from us."
 4He who sitteth in the heavens laugheth:{HR}The Lord derideth them. (Psa. 2:1‑4)
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Psa. 83:2‑8• 2For, behold, thine enemies make a tumult,{HR}And those that hate thee have lifted up the head.
 3Against thy people they devise secret craft{HR}And consult against thy hidden ones.
 4They said, Come, and we will cut them off from [being] a nation,{HR}And let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
 5For they have heartily consulted together;{HR}Against thee do they make a covenant:
 6The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites,{HR}Moab and the Hagarenes;
 7Gebal and Ammon and Amalek;{HR}Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
 8Asshur also is joined with them;{HR}They are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah. (Psa. 83:2‑8)
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2 Chron. 14:9‑13• 9{i}And Zerah the Ethiopian came out against him with a host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.{/i}
 10{i}And Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.{/i}
 11And Asa cried unto Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, [it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many or with them that hath no power: help us, O Jehovah our God, for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Jehovah, thou [art] our God; let not man prevail against thee.
 12So Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
 13And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Jehovah, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil. (2 Chron. 14:9‑13)
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2 Chron. 20:1,20‑24• 1{i}And 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.{/i}
 20{i}And 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!{/i}
 21{i}And 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 forever!{/i}
 22{i}And 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.{/i}
 23The children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
 24{i}And 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.{/i} (2 Chron. 20:1,20‑24)
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Isa. 8:9‑10• 9Rage, ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces. And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth. Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
 10Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God [is] with us [Immanuel]. (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 against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
 22this [is] the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him. The virgin-daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken 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 hast thou 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, its choice cypresses: and I will enter into the height of its border, 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 rivers of Matsor.
 26Hast thou not heard long ago I have done it, how of ancient days I purposed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest waste fortified cities [to] ruinous heaps.
 27And their inhabitants [were] powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were [as] the grass of the field, the green herb, the grass on the housetops, and [corn] blighted before it be grown up.
 28But I know thy sitting down, 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; ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and 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 shall escape; the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall perform this.
 33Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast a mount against it.
 34By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.
 35For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
 36And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses. (Isa. 37:21‑36)
kingdoms.
Isa. 14:12‑16• 12How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!
 13And thou saidst in thine 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.
 15Yet thou shalt be 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 did shake kingdoms; (Isa. 14:12‑16)
earth.
Psa. 68:8• 8The earth trembled, yea the heavens dropped from before God,{HR}This Sinai from before God, the God of Israel. (Psa. 68:8)
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Psa. 97:5• 5Mountains melted like wax before Jehovah,{HR}Before the Lord of the whole earth. (Psa. 97:5)
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Josh. 2:9,11,24• 9{i}and said to the men{/i}, I know, that Jehovah hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
 11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
 24{i}And 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.{/i} (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,
 2as fire kindleth brushwood, [as] fire causeth the waters to boil—to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence! (Isa. 64:1‑2)
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Amos 9:5,13• 5{i}And 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.{/i}
 13Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. (Amos 9:5,13)
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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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Hab. 3:5‑6,10‑11• 5Before him went the pestilence,
 6He stood, and made the earth tremble:
 10The mountains saw thee, and they trembled:
 11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: (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 shall pass away with rushing noise, and elements, with fervent heat, shall be dissolved, and [the] earth and the works that are therein shall be burnt up.
 11All these things being thus to be dissolved, of what sort ought ye to be in holy ways and godliness,
 12waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which [day] heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and elements in fervent heat shall melt? (2 Peter 3:10‑12)
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Rev. 6:13‑14• 13and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree shaken by a great wind casteth its untimely figs.
 14And the heaven departed as a scroll rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved 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 upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place 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. (“Psalm 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Nations raged, kingdoms were moved:{HR}He uttered his voice; the earth melteth.