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New Living Translation

Psalms 46:6

The nations are in chaos, and their kingdoms crumble! God's voice thunders, and the earth melts!

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

English Revised Version
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Update Bible Version
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.
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.
Webster's Bible Translation
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
World English Bible
The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice, and the earth melted.
Amplified Bible
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered and were moved; He raised His voice, the earth melted.
English Standard Version
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hethene men weren disturblid togidere, and rewmes weren bowid doun; God yaf his vois, the erthe was moued.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When the nations raged, and the kingdomes were moued, God thundred, and the earth melted.
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.
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.
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
Nations rage, kingdoms topple;the earth melts when he lifts his voice.
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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Heithen are madd, the kyngdomes make moch adoo: but whe he sheweth his voyce, ye earth melteth awaye.
New American Standard Bible
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He raised His voice, the earth quaked.
New King James Version
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He raised His voice, the earth melted.
Legacy Standard Bible
The nations roar, the kingdoms shake;He gives His voice, the earth melts.

Contextual Overview

6 The nations are in chaos, and their kingdoms crumble! God's voice thunders, and the earth melts! 7 The Lord of Heaven's Armies is here among us; the God of Israel is our fortress. Interlude 8 Come, see the glorious works of the Lord : See how he brings destruction upon the world. 9 He causes wars to end throughout the earth. He breaks the bow and snaps the spear; he burns the shields with fire. 10 "Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world." 11 The Lord of Heaven's Armies is here among us; the God of Israel is our fortress. Interlude

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, "You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.
Numbers 20:15
Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there a long time, and we and our ancestors were brutally mistreated by the Egyptians.
Deuteronomy 10:22
When your ancestors went down into Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky!
Deuteronomy 26:5
"You must then say in the presence of the Lord your God, ‘My ancestor Jacob was a wandering Aramean who went to live as a foreigner in Egypt. His family arrived few in number, but in Egypt they became a large and mighty nation.
Joshua 24:4
To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the mountains of Seir, while Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
1 Samuel 12:8
"When the Israelites were in Egypt and cried out to the Lord , he sent Moses and Aaron to rescue them from Egypt and to bring them into this land.
Psalms 105:23
Then Israel arrived in Egypt; Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
Isaiah 52:4
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: "Long ago my people chose to live in Egypt. Now they are oppressed by Assyria.
Acts 7:15
So Jacob went to Egypt. He died there, as did our ancestors.

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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