Psalm 46:4 {45:5}
Good News Translation
There is a river that brings joy to the city of God, to the sacred house of the Most High.

New Revised Standard Version
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

Contemporary English Version
A river and its streams bring joy to the city, which is the sacred home of God Most High.

New American Bible
Streams of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.

a river

Psalm 23:2 He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:

Psalm 36:8,9 They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure. . . .

Isaiah 8:6,7 Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia: . . .

Isaiah 48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

Ezekiel 47:1-12 And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar. . . .

Revelation 22:1-3 And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. . . .

city

Psalm 48:1,8 A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week. [2] Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. . . .

Psalm 87:3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

2 Chronicles 6:6 But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

Isaiah 37:35,36 And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant. . . .

Isaiah 60:14 And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.

Hebrews 12:22 But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

Revelation 21:2,3,10 And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. . . .

holy

Deuteronomy 12:11,12 In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord. . . .

most

Psalm 91:1 The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.

Psalm 92:1,8 A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day. [2] It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High. . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

Micah 6:6 What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old?

Context
God is Our Refuge and Strength
3Their waters roared and were troubled: the mountains were troubled with his strength. 4The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.5God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.…
Cross References
Revelation 3:12
He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God: and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

Revelation 22:1
And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Genesis 2:10
And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.

Psalm 16:11
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to the end.

Psalm 23:2
He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:

Psalm 36:8
They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.

Psalm 43:3
Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

Psalm 48:1
A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week. [2] Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Psalm 65:9
Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.

Psalm 87:3
Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

Psalm 101:8
In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

Isaiah 8:6
Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia:

Isaiah 60:14
And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 47:1
And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar.

Psalm 46:3
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