46:1 *[For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth.** A song.] God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. / *In Hebrew texts 46:1-11 is numbered 46:2-12. / **Title: Probably a musical term
46:2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
46:3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.* / *The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 11.
46:4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
46:5 God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
46:6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
46:7 The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
46:8 Come and see what the Lord has done, the desolations he has brought on the earth.
46:9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields* with fire. / *Or chariots
46:10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
46:11 The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.