Parallel Verses
Amplified
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains tremble at its roaring. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.
King James Version
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Holman Bible
and the mountains quake with its turmoil.
International Standard Version
when its waters roar and rage, when the mountains tremble despite their pride. Interlude
A Conservative Version
though the waters of it roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with the swelling of it. Selah.
American Standard Version
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah
Bible in Basic English
Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
Though the waters thereof roar and foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
Its waters will roar, they will foam; the mountains will tremble in its pride. Silence.
King James 2000
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
though its waters roar [and] foam, though mountains shake with its surging [water]. Selah
Modern King James verseion
Let its waters roar and foam; let the mountains shake with the swelling of it. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same. Selah.
NET Bible
when its waves crash and foam, and the mountains shake before the surging sea. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
The waters thereof roar and foam, The mountains tremble with the swelling thereof Selah.
Webster
Though its waters shall roar and be disturbed, though the mountains shake with the swelling of it. Selah.
World English Bible
though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.
Themes
Assurance » Saints privileged to have, of » Preservation
References
American
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 46:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Our Refuge
2
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains be shaken and slip into the heart of the seas,
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains tremble at its roaring. Selah.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 93:3-4
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their pounding waves.
Jeremiah 5:22
‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.
‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?
For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.
Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];
Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].
[Is not such a God to be feared?]
Judges 5:4-5
“Lord, when You went out from Seir,
When You marched from the field of Edom,
The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped,
Yes, the clouds dripped water.
1 Kings 19:11
So He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord was passing by, and a great and powerful wind was tearing out the mountains and breaking the rocks in pieces before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind, [there was] an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
Job 9:5-6
“It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know it,
When He overturns them in His anger;
Job 38:11
And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?
Psalm 18:4
The cords of death surrounded me,
And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.
Psalm 114:4-7
The mountains leaped like rams,
The [little] hills, like lambs.
Isaiah 5:3
“And now, says the Lord, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
Judge between Me and My vineyard (My people).
Isaiah 17:12-13
Oh, the uproar of many peoples
Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the noise of nations
Who roar like the rumbling of mighty waters!
Jeremiah 4:24
I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were trembling,
And all the hills moved back and forth.
Micah 1:4
The mountains shall melt under Him
And the valleys shall be split
Like wax before the fire,
Like waters poured down a steep place.
Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake before Him
And the hills melt away;
Indeed the earth is shaken by His presence—
Yes, the world and all that dwell in it.
Matthew 7:25
Revelation 16:20
Then every island fled away, and no mountains could be found.
Revelation 17:15
Then the angel said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.