Psalms 46:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah”
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“though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. [Selah”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Roar--troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 46:3 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 5:4O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
- 1 Kings 19:11Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
- Job 9:5He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
- Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
- Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
- Psalms 114:4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- Isaiah 5:3“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
- Isaiah 17:12Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
- Isaiah 54:10Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
- Jeremiah 4:24I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
- Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
- Micah 1:4The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
- Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
- Matthew 7:25The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
- Revelation 16:20Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found.
- Revelation 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
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