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Psalms 46:3

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יֶהֱמ֣וּye.he.Muthey will roarH1993 →
יֶחְמְר֣וּyech.me.Ruthey will foamH2560 →
מֵימָ֑יוmei.Mavwaters itsH4325 →
יִֽרְעֲשֽׁוּ־yir.'a.shu-they will shakeH7493 →
הָרִ֖יםha.RimmountainsH2022 →
בְּגַאֲוָת֣וֹbe.ga.'a.va.Toat swelling itsH1346 →
סֶֽלָה׃Se.lahSelahH5542 →

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Jeremiah 5:22Do 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.Psalms 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.Luke 21:25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.Job 9:5–6He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.Micah 1:4The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.Judges 5:4–5O 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.Revelation 16:20Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found.Psalms 114:4–7the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.Isaiah 5:3“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.Matthew 7:25The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?Isaiah 17:12–13Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.Jeremiah 4:24I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.Revelation 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.1 Kings 19:11Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.Psalms 29:8The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.

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