Psalms 46:8 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 46:8

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

KJV

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ASV

Come, behold the works of Jehovah, What desolations he hath made in the earth.

WEB

Come, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation upon the earth.

YLT

Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth,

DBT

Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath made in the earth:

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 66:5
Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 61:4
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Psalms 92:4–6
For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
Isaiah 34:2–17
For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

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Particularly take notice of the desolations he has made in the earth, among the enemies of his church, who thought to lay the land of Israel desolate. The destruction they designed to bring upon the church has been turned upon themselves. War is a tragedy which commonly destroys the stage it is acted on;

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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