Psalm 46: Be Still, and Know That I Am God
God as an ever-present refuge amid earthquakes, roaring seas, and raging nations.
Psalm 46 opens with the declaration that God is 'our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble,' the core promise explored at Psalms 46:1. Even if mountains are carried into the sea and waters roar, the psalmist says there is no cause for fear.
To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' -- A song. God `is' to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.
Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas.
Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.
A river -- its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
God `is' in her midst -- she is not moved, God doth help her at the turn of the morn!
Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.
Jehovah of Hosts `is' with us, A tower for us `is' the God of Jacob. Selah.
Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth,
Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.
Desist, and know that I `am' God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.
Jehovah of hosts `is' with us, A tower for us `is' the God of Jacob! Selah.