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Psalms 46:1
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God is our refuge and strength,a helper who is always foundin times of trouble.
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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.For the director of music. By alamoth. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
God is our protection and our strength. He always helps in times of trouble.For the music director; by the Korahites; according to the alamoth style; a song.
God is our strong refuge; he is truly our helper in times of trouble.God is our refuge and strength [mighty and impenetrable], A very present and well-proved help in trouble.
God is our refuge and strength, A very ready help in trouble.
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To him that excelleth vpon Alamoth a song committed to the sonnes of Korah. God is our hope and strength, and helpe in troubles, ready to be found.
God is our refuge and strength,A very present help in trouble.
For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
(A special song for the people of Korah and for the music leader.)
God is our mighty fortress, always ready to help in times of trouble.For the leader. By the descendants of Korach. On ‘alamot [high-pitched musical instruments?]. A song:
To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song.
God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.To the director: A song from the Korah family. Use the alamoth. A song.
God is our protection and source of strength. He is always ready to help us in times of trouble.GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
God is our shelter and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.
For the music director. Of the sons of Korah.
According to Alamoth. A song.
God is our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles.To the chief musician. For the sons of Korah; A song. For the Virgins. God is our refuge and strength, very much found to be a help in distresses.
In oure troubles and aduersite, we haue founde, that God is oure refuge, oure strength and helpe.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.For the Leader; [a Psalm] of the sons of Korah; upon Alamoth. A Song.
[To the chiefe Musician for the sonnes of Korah, a song vpon Alamoth.] God is our refuge and strength: a very present helpe in trouble.
The Lorde is our refuge & strength: a helpe very easyly founde in troubles.
God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.
For the Chief Musician: a Psalm of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
The title of the five and fourtithe salm. To the ouercomere, the song of the sones `of Chore, `for yongthis. Oure God, thou art refuyt, and vertu; helpere in tribulacions, that han founde vs greetly.
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
For the choir director: A song of the descendants of Korah, to be sung by soprano voices.
God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.God is our safe place and our strength. He is always our help when we are in trouble.
To the leader. Of the Korahites. According to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.(45-1) <Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden.> (45-2) Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
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.
A Song of the Sons of Korah God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him. We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake, Before the rush and roar of oceans, the tremors that shift mountains. Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God -of-Angel-Armies protects us.
For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah, set to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
A song: Psalms 48:1, Psalms 66:1, *titles
Alamoth: 1 Chronicles 15:20
refuge: Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11, Psalms 62:7, Psalms 62:8, Psalms 91:1-9, Psalms 142:5, Proverbs 14:26, Proverbs 18:10, Luke 13:34, Hebrews 6:18
a very: Psalms 145:18, Genesis 22:14, Deuteronomy 4:7, 2 Samuel 22:17-20
Reciprocal: Genesis 26:24 - fear Genesis 31:3 - Return Genesis 35:1 - God said Genesis 35:3 - who answered Exodus 2:5 - when she Exodus 14:13 - Fear ye not Exodus 18:4 - Eliezer Leviticus 26:5 - dwell Numbers 14:9 - the Lord Numbers 26:11 - General Deuteronomy 1:21 - fear not Deuteronomy 7:18 - shalt not Deuteronomy 33:27 - refuge Joshua 10:42 - because 1 Samuel 11:11 - on the morrow 1 Samuel 23:17 - shall not 2 Samuel 21:17 - succoured 2 Samuel 22:3 - my refuge 2 Samuel 22:33 - strength 2 Kings 18:5 - trusted 1 Chronicles 5:20 - And they 2 Chronicles 18:31 - the Lord Job 11:15 - thou shalt be Psalms 9:9 - The Lord Psalms 10:1 - standest Psalms 18:18 - but Psalms 20:1 - hear Psalms 23:4 - I will Psalms 27:1 - of whom Psalms 27:5 - For in Psalms 28:7 - strength Psalms 37:39 - strength Psalms 42:1 - the sons Psalms 47:1 - for Psalms 49:1 - for Psalms 49:5 - Wherefore Psalms 56:4 - in God I have Psalms 59:9 - his strength Psalms 59:17 - O my Psalms 81:1 - make Psalms 91:2 - I will Psalms 118:6 - The Lord Psalms 119:151 - near Psalms 121:2 - My help Proverbs 3:25 - Be Isaiah 8:10 - counsel Isaiah 8:14 - he shall be Isaiah 17:12 - make a noise Isaiah 26:4 - in the Isaiah 28:6 - and for strength Isaiah 33:2 - our salvation Isaiah 37:22 - hath despised Isaiah 41:10 - Fear Isaiah 46:13 - shall not tarry Jeremiah 14:8 - in time Jeremiah 16:19 - my strength Jeremiah 29:14 - I will be Hosea 13:9 - but Joel 3:16 - hope Habakkuk 3:18 - I will rejoice Habakkuk 3:19 - my strength Zechariah 9:8 - I will Zechariah 12:5 - The inhabitants Matthew 24:6 - see Mark 4:40 - Why Mark 13:7 - when Luke 6:48 - for Luke 21:9 - when John 4:47 - that he Acts 23:11 - the Lord Romans 8:28 - we know Romans 8:31 - If
Cross-References
Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering,
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, [fn] because the two of them swore an oath there.
Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
God [is] our refuge and strength,.... That is, Christ, who is God as well as man, is the "refuge" for souls to fly unto for safety; as for sensible sinners, in a view of danger, wrath, and misery, so for saints, in every time of distress; typified by the cities of refuge, under the legal dispensation; :-; and he it is from whom they have all their spiritual strength, and every renewal and supply of it, to exercise grace, perform duties, withstand enemies, bear the cross patiently, show a fortitude of mind under the sorest distresses, and hold on and out unto the end: in short, he is the strength of their hearts, under the greatest trials, of their lives, amidst the greatest dangers; and of their salvation, notwithstanding all their enemies;
a very present help in trouble; whether inward or outward, of soul or body; the Lord helps his people under it to bear it, and he helps them out of it in the most proper and seasonable time: they are poor helpless creatures in themselves; nor can any other help them but the Lord, who made heaven and earth; and he helps presently, speedily, and effectually: in the Hebrew text it is, "he is found an exceeding help in trouble" t; in all kind of trouble that the saints come into, the Lord has been found, by experience, to be an exceeding great helper of them; moreover, he is easily and always to be come at, and found by them for their help.
t נמצא מאד "inventum valde", Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
God is our refuge and strength - God is for us as a place to which we may flee for safety; a source of strength to us in danger. The first word, “refuge,” from a verb meaning to “flee,” and then “to flee to” - הסה châsâh - or to take shelter in - denotes a place to which one would flee in time of danger - as a lofty wall; a high tower; a fort; a fortress. See the notes at Psalms 18:2. The idea here is, that the people of God, in time of danger, may find him to be what such a place of refuge would be. Compare Proverbs 18:10. The word “strength” implies that God is the source of strength to those who are weak and defenseless; or that we may rely on his strength “as if” it were our own; or that we may feel as safe in his strength as though we had that strength ourselves. We may make it the basis of our confidence as really as though the strength resided in our own arm. See the notes at Psalms 18:2.
A very present help - The word “help” here means aid, assistance. The word “trouble” would cover all that can come upon us which would give us anxiety or sorrow. The word rendered “present” - נמצא nimetsâ' - means rather, “is found,” or “has been found;” that is, he has “proved” himself to be a help in trouble. The word “present,” as if he were near to us, or close by us, does not accurately express the idea, which is rather, that “he has been found” to be such, or that he has always “proved” himself to be such a help, and that, therefore, we may now confide in him. The word “very,” or “exceedingly,” is added to qualify the whole proposition, as if this were “emphatically true.” It was true in the most eminent sense that God had always been found to be such a helper, and, “therefore,” there was nothing to fear in the present distress. Psalms 46:2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM XLVI
The confidence of believers in God, 1-3.
The privileges of the Church, 4, 5;
her enemies, and her helper, 6, 7.
God's judgments in the earth, 8, 9.
He will be exalted among the heathen, and throughout the earth,
10, 11.
NOTES ON PSALM XLVI
The title in the Hebrew is, "To the chief musician for the sons of Korah; an ode upon Alamoth, or concerning the virgins:" possibly meaning a choir of singing girls. Some translate the word secrets or mysteries; and explain it accordingly. Calmet thinks it was composed by the descendants of Korah, on their return from the Babylonian captivity, when they had once more got peaceably settled in Jerusalem; and that the disturbances to which it refers were those which took place in the Persian empire after the death of Cambyses, when the Magi usurped the government. Many other interpretations and conjectures are given of the occasion of this fine ode. Houbigant thinks it was made on occasion of an earthquake, which he supposes took place on the night that all Sennacherib's army was destroyed, Dr. Kennicott thinks that alamoth means a musical instrument. All I can pretend to say about it is, that it is a very sublime ode; contains much consolation for the Church of God; and was given by the inspiration of his Holy Spirit.
Verse Psalms 46:1. God is our refuge — It begins abruptly, but nobly; ye may trust in whom and in what ye please: but GOD (ELOHIM) is our refuge and strength.
A very present help — A help found to be very powerful and effectual in straits and difficulties. The words are very emphatic: עזרה בצרות נמצא מאד ezerah betsaroth nimtsa meod, "He is found an exceeding, or superlative help in difficulties." Such we have found him, and therefore celebrate his praise.
