Psalms

Chapter 46

God Is Our Refuge and Strength

This psalm declares God to be the unfailing refuge and strength of his people, so certain that even earth-shaking chaos and roaring seas need not produce fear. It celebrates the secure city where God dwells, contrasts divine stability with raging nations and collapsing kingdoms, invites the hearer to see the LORD's desolating and war-ending works, and closes with the command to be still before the God who will be exalted in all the earth.

Psalm 46 is a song of holy confidence under total instability. It teaches that the peace of God's people does not come from quiet circumstances but from God's present indwelling, sovereign voice, and final triumph over every threat, so that refuge becomes worship and stillness becomes submission to the Lord of hosts.

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Psalms 46

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God Is Our Refuge and Strength

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F¹or the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. ²Therefore we will not fear, ³though their waters roar and foam

⁴There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, ⁵God is within her; she will not be moved. ⁶Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; ⁷The LORD of Hosts is with us;

⁸Come, see the works of the LORD, ⁹He makes wars to cease throughout the earth;

¹⁰“Be still and know that I am God; ¹¹The LORD of Hosts is with us;

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01vv. 1-11God Is Our Refuge and StrengthThe sons of Korah open by confessing God as present help in trouble, which makes even world-level upheaval unable to undo the courage of his people. They then celebrate the river-gladdened city of God where his presence secures help, contrast God's stabilizing voice with the rage of nations, summon the hearer to behold the LORD's earth-stilling works, and end with the repeated assurance that the LORD of hosts is with them and that Jacob's God is their fortress.