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Christian Standard Bible ®

Psalms 46:6

Nations rage, kingdoms topple;the earth melts when he lifts his voice.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Fear;   God;   Refuge;   Strength;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Earth, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alamoth;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Korah, Korahites;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Korah;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Melt (and forms);   Voice;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Hezekiah (2);   Music;   Psalms, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 18;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice, and the eretz melted.
King James Version
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
English Standard Version
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
New Century Version
Nations tremble and kingdoms shake. God shouts and the earth crumbles.
New English Translation
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown. God gives a shout, the earth dissolves.
Amplified Bible
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered and were moved; He raised His voice, the earth melted.
New American Standard Bible
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He raised His voice, the earth quaked.
World English Bible
The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice, and the earth melted.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When the nations raged, and the kingdomes were moued, God thundred, and the earth melted.
Legacy Standard Bible
The nations roar, the kingdoms shake;He gives His voice, the earth melts.
Berean Standard Bible
Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
Contemporary English Version
Nations rage! Kingdoms fall! But at the voice of God the earth itself melts.
Complete Jewish Bible
God is in the city. It will not be moved — when daybreak comes, God will help it.
Darby Translation
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Easy-to-Read Version
Nations will shake with fear and kingdoms will fall when God shouts and makes the earth move.
George Lamsa Translation
The heathen raged, the kingdoms trembled: he raised his voice, the earth quaked.
Good News Translation
Nations are terrified, kingdoms are shaken; God thunders, and the earth dissolves.
Lexham English Bible
Nations roar, kingdoms shake; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
Literal Translation
The nations roared; kingdoms were shaken; He gave forth His voice and the earth melted.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Heithen are madd, the kyngdomes make moch adoo: but whe he sheweth his voyce, ye earth melteth awaye.
American Standard Version
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Bible in Basic English
The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, at the approach of morning.
King James Version (1611)
The heathen raged, the kingdomes were mooued: he vttered his voyce, the earth melted.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The heathen make much a do, and the kyngdomes are moued: but [God] shewed his voyce, and the earth melted away.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, the earth shook.
English Revised Version
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hethene men weren disturblid togidere, and rewmes weren bowid doun; God yaf his vois, the erthe was moued.
Update Bible Version
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Webster's Bible Translation
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
New King James Version
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
New Living Translation
The nations are in chaos, and their kingdoms crumble! God's voice thunders, and the earth melts!
New Life Bible
The people made noise. The nations fell. He raised His voice and the earth melted.
New Revised Standard
The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Nations have roared, Kingdoms have tottered, He hath uttered his voice, Earth melteth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(45-7) Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.
Revised Standard Version
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
Young's Literal Translation
Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He raised His voice, the earth melted.

Contextual Overview

6Nations rage, kingdoms topple;the earth melts when he lifts his voice.7The Lord of Armies is with us;the God of Jacob is our stronghold.Selah 8Come, see the works of the Lord,who brings devastation on the earth. 9He makes wars cease throughout the earth.He shatters bows and cuts spears to pieces;he sets wagons ablaze. 10“Stop your fighting, and know that I am God,exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth.” 11The Lord of Armies is with us;the God of Jacob is our stronghold.Selah

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heathen: Psalms 2:1-4, Psalms 83:2-8, 2 Chronicles 14:9-13, 2 Chronicles 20:1, 2 Chronicles 20:20-24, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 37:21-36

kingdoms: Isaiah 14:12-16

earth: Psalms 68:8, Psalms 97:5, Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:11, Joshua 2:24, Isaiah 64:1, Isaiah 64:2, Amos 9:5, Amos 9:13, Nahum 1:5, Habakkuk 3:5, Habakkuk 3:6, Habakkuk 3:10, Habakkuk 3:11, 2 Peter 3:10-12, Revelation 6:13, Revelation 6:14, Revelation 20:11

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:20 - the Syrians 2 Kings 19:28 - thy rage 2 Kings 19:34 - I will defend Psalms 76:10 - remainder Psalms 96:10 - Say Isaiah 23:11 - stretched Isaiah 29:5 - at an Isaiah 30:30 - the Lord Isaiah 33:3 - General Isaiah 33:13 - Hear Isaiah 37:29 - rage Isaiah 37:36 - and when Jeremiah 50:42 - their voice Jeremiah 51:16 - he uttereth Joel 2:11 - utter Haggai 2:21 - I will

Cross-References

Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.
Numbers 20:15
Our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy people in all, and now the Lord your God has made you numerous, like the stars of the sky.
Deuteronomy 26:5
You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God:
Joshua 24:4
and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau as a possession.
1 Samuel 12:8
“When Jacob went to Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the Lord, and he sent them Moses and Aaron, who led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
Psalms 105:23
Then Israel went to Egypt;Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
Isaiah 52:4
For this is what the Lord God says:“At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there,then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
Acts 7:15
and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Heathen raged,.... As they did at Christ's first coming, against him, his Gospel, and people; and which continued during the three first centuries; and then the Pagan kingdoms belonging to the Roman empire were removed; since then another sort of Heathens, the Papists, have raged, in violent persecutions and bloodshed of the saints and martyrs of Jesus, and will rage again, about and at the downfall of Babylon; see Revelation 11:18;

the kingdoms were moved; either from their Pagan or Papal religion, and became subject to Christ. So it was at the downfall of Rome Pagan; and so it will be at the downfall of Rome Papal; when the kings of the earth shall hate the whore, make her desolate, and burn her flesh with fire. Or they shall be destroyed; that is, those that shall be gathered together in Armageddon, to make war with the Lamb; see

Revelation 16:14;

he uttered his voice, the earth melted; like wax, as the inhabitants of the earth do at the voice of his thunder, and as antichrist will at the breath of his mouth; and all within the Romish jurisdiction, signified by "the earth", as it often is in the book of the Revelation, when the voice of the mighty angel shall be heard, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen", Revelation 18:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The heathen raged - The nations were in commotion, or were agitated like the waves of the sea. This language would well describe the consternation of the nations when the Assyrians went forth to conquest, and when, having subdued so many other kingdoms, they made war on Jerusalem. Compare Isaiah 36:18-20.

The kingdoms were moved - That is, those who were invaded, as well as those that made the invasion. There was a general convulsion or shaking among the nations of the earth.

He uttered his voice - God spoke; he gave command; he expressed his will. Compare Genesis 1:3; Habakkuk 3:6.

The earth melted - The very earth seemed to melt or dissolve before him. Everything became still. The danger passed away at his command, and the raging world became calm. The Bible abounds in language of this kind, showing the absolute power of God, or his power to control all the raging elements on land and ocean by a word. Compare the notes at Psalms 33:9. See also Psalms 107:25, Psalms 107:29; Matthew 8:26.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 46:6. The heathen raged — There had been terrible wars on all hands, and mighty states were crushed, when the poor Jews were, by the especial favour of God, kept in peace and safety. Kingdoms were moved while they were preserved.

He uttered his voice — These words seem to refer to thunder, lightning, and earthquake. The expressions, however, may be figurative, and refer to the wars and desolations already mentioned. God gave the command; and one empire was cast down, and another was raised up.


 
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