Psalm 46

¹⁸The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

⁹The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

¹⁰The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

⁷My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.

⁸Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

¹He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

⁵I cry to You, O Lord: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

⁴Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

⁶So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

³Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.

⁹When you hear of wars and rebellions, do not be alarmed. These things must happen first, but the end is not imminent.”

¹⁰Then He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

²¹“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

³³Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

³The floodwaters have risen, O Lord; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

⁴Above the roar of many waters—the mighty breakers of the sea—the Lord on high is majestic.

²²Do 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.

⁵He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.

⁶He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

⁴The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

⁵The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.

⁴O Lord, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.

⁵The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel.

¹Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

²down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

¹Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.

²Next he brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and there I saw the water trickling out from the south side.

⁸They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.

⁹For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

³Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah

⁸As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah

⁶But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

⁵For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the Lord, and I will be the glory within it.’”

²⁷Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

¹⁵The Lord has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the Lord, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.

¹⁰“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the Lord.

¹¹“On that day many nations will join themselves to the Lord, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me to you.

²He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.

⁷and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.

⁵The Lord God of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—

¹³The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded—hailstones and coals of fire.

⁵The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.

⁵Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

⁶He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

⁴The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

¹³“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.

³¹What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

⁹The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

⁹Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”

¹²Now behold, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with their trumpets sound the battle call against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

²⁰and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

¹⁰Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

⁵Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.

¹Behold, the Lord lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

⁴For You, O Lord, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

⁵How great are Your works, O Lord, how deep are Your thoughts!

⁴They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

²The Lord is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.

³Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

²Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them.

³Splendid and majestic is His work; His righteousness endures forever.

⁴Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.

³Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.

⁴And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.

¹⁰“In that day,” declares the Lord, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.

¹⁸No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

⁹Joshua treated them as the Lord had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.

³There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah

⁴You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains filled with game.

³Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

²⁰But the Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

²³I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and I will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

¹³Be silent before the Lord, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”

¹⁸May they know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, are Most High over all the earth.

⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.

²⁷The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

¹⁹O Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

¹For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.

⁷The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

³God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.