Psalm 46:6
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New International Version (©2011)
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The nations are in chaos, and their kingdoms crumble! God's voice thunders, and the earth melts!

English Standard Version (©2001)
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He raised His voice, the earth melted.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Nations rage, kingdoms topple; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The nations roared; the kingdoms were shaken. His voice boomed; the earth melts.

NET Bible (©2006)
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown. God gives a shout, the earth dissolves.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
The nations raged and the kingdoms moved, he raised his voice and the Earth shook.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Nations are in turmoil, and kingdoms topple. The earth melts at the sound of [God's] voice.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

American King James Version
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

American Standard Version
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.

Darby Bible Translation
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

English Revised 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.

World English Bible
The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

46:6-11 Come and see the effects of desolating judgments, and stand in awe of God. This shows the perfect security of the church, and is an assurance of lasting peace. Let us pray for the speedy approach of these glorious days, and in silent submission let us worship and trust in our almighty Sovereign. Let all believers triumph in this, that the Lord of hosts, the God of Jacob, has been, is, and will be with us; and will be our Refuge. Mark this, take the comfort, and say, If God be for us, who can be against us? With this, through life and in death, let us answer every fear.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted (comp. vers. 2 and 3). The past tenses arc probably the "preterite of prophetic certainty." The writer foresees and announces the destruction of Israel's enemies.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. (Compare Ps 46:2).

earth melted—all powers dissolved by His mere word (Ps 75:3; Ho 2:22).

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God is Our Refuge and Strength
…5God is in the middle of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. 6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 7The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. …

Psalm 2:1 Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
Psalm 18:13 The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
Psalm 68:33 to him who rides across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens, who thunders with mighty voice.
Psalm 75:3 When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.
Psalm 97:5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
Jeremiah 25:30 "Now prophesy all these words against them and say to them: "'The LORD will roar from on high; he will thunder from his holy dwelling and roar mightily against his land. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, shout against all who live on the earth.
Joel 2:11 The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty is the army that obeys his command. The day of the LORD is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?
Amos 1:2 He said: "The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers."
Amos 9:5 The Lord, the LORD Almighty-- he touches the earth and it melts, and all who live in it mourn; the whole land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt;
Micah 1:4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it.