Psalm 46:3
New International Version
though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.

New Living Translation
Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge! Interlude

English Standard Version
though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah

Berean Standard Bible
though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah

King James Bible
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

New King James Version
Though its waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah

New American Standard Bible
Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah

NASB 1995
Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah.

NASB 1977
Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah.

Legacy Standard Bible
Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its lofty pride. Selah.

Amplified Bible
Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains tremble at its roaring. Selah.

Christian Standard Bible
though its water roars and foams and the mountains quake with its turmoil. Selah

Holman Christian Standard Bible
though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with its turmoil. Selah

American Standard Version
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. [Selah

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Their waters shall be troubled and return and the mountains will be moved by his strength.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by his might. Pause.

Contemporary English Version
Let the ocean roar and foam, and its raging waves shake the mountains.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their waters roared and were troubled: the mountains were troubled with his strength.

English Revised Version
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Water roars and foams, and mountains shake at the surging waves. [Selah]

Good News Translation
even if the seas roar and rage, and the hills are shaken by the violence.

International Standard Version
when its waters roar and rage, when the mountains tremble despite their pride. Interlude

JPS Tanakh 1917
Though the waters thereof roar and foam, Though the mountains shake at the swelling thereof. Selah

Literal Standard Version
Roar—troubled are its waters, | Mountains shake in its pride. Selah.

Majority Standard Bible
though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah

New American Bible
Though its waters rage and foam and mountains totter at its surging. Selah

NET Bible
when its waves crash and foam, and the mountains shake before the surging sea. (Selah)

New Revised Standard Version
though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Selah

New Heart English Bible
though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God is Our Refuge and Strength
2Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas, 3though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah 4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.…

Cross References
Psalm 93:3
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

Psalm 93:4
Above the roar of many waters--the mighty breakers of the sea--the LORD on high is majestic.

Jeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear Me?" declares the LORD. "Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.


Treasury of Scripture

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

the waters

Psalm 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Psalm 93:3,4
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves…

Job 38:11
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

mountains

Psalm 114:4-7
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs…

Judges 5:4,5
LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water…

1 Kings 19:11
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:

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Psalm 46
1. The confidence which the church has in God
8. An exhortation to behold it














(3) Though the waters . . .--The original is very expressive in its conciseness:

"They roar, they foam, its waters."

Comp. Homer's equally concise description, including in three words the "rush," the "swell," and the "roar" of ocean (Iliad, xxiii. 230).

Swelling.--Or, pride. (Comp. Job 38:11.) The change in construction in this verse seems to confirm the suspicion that the refrain has dropped away.

Verse 3. - Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled; or, roar and foam (Hengstenberg, Kay, Cheyne). Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof (comp. Psalm 93:3, 4; Jeremiah 46:8, 9; Jeremiah 47:2).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
though its waters
מֵימָ֑יו (mê·māw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

roar
יֶהֱמ֣וּ (ye·hĕ·mū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1993: To make a, loud sound, commotion, tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor

and foam
יֶחְמְר֣וּ (yeḥ·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2560: To boil up, to ferment, to glow, to smear with pitch

and the mountains
הָרִ֖ים (hā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

quake
יִֽרְעֲשֽׁוּ־ (yir·‘ă·šū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7493: To undulate, through fear, to spring

in the surge.
בְּגַאֲוָת֣וֹ (bə·ḡa·’ă·wā·ṯōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1346: Arrogance, majesty, ornament

Selah
סֶֽלָה׃ (se·lāh)
Interjection
Strong's 5542: Suspension, pause


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