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Psalms 46:3

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Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
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  1. Jeremiah 5:22Rank 1 from verse 3
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    22Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

  2. Psalms 93:3–4Rank 2 from verse 3
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    3The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

    4The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

  3. Job 9:5–6Rank 3 from verse 3
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    5Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

    6Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

  4. Judges 5:4–5Rank 4 from verse 3
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    4Lord, 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.

    5The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.

  5. Micah 1:4Rank 5 from verse 3
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    4And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

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Psalms 46:3

COMBINED MEANING

roar

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Sense 1: A deep, loud, prolonged cry or sound. Sense 2: To make such a sound, especially in distress or fierceness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

troubled

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Disturbed, agitated, alarmed, perplexed, afflicted, burdened, unsettled, or caused to suffer inward, bodily, social, or outward disruption.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shake

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To move rapidly back and forth; to cause to tremble, loosen, overthrow, or become unsettled.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

swelling

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Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of swell, meaning to grow larger, rise, or become proud. Sense 2: As a noun, an enlargement or wave.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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46:1GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

46:2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

46:3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

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46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

46:5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

46:6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

46:7The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

46:8Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

46:9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

46:10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

46:11The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

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