“ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. ”
God is our refuge and strength - God is for us as a place to which we may flee for safety; a source of strength to us in danger. The first word, “refuge,” from a verb meaning to “flee,” and then...
"To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon (a) Alamoth." God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in (b) trouble. (a) Which was either a musical instrument or a solemn tu...
XLVI. God the Refuge of His People. The poem is divided into three parts by the word Selah, which also marks its close. It was further divided by the refrain which occurs after Psalms 46:6 and P...
Title.. Song. Hebrew. shir . One of the "Songs" referred to in Isaiah 38:20 (though not the same word). See App-65. Doubtless Hezekiah's during Sennacherib's siege. No other period of Israel's h...
1. God is our refuge and strength Here the Psalmist begins with a general expression or sentiment, before he comes to speak of the more particular deliverance. He begins by premising that Go...
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. God is our refuge - It begins abruptly, but nobly; ye may trust in...
The confidence which the church hath in God. An exhortation to behold it. To the chief musician, for the sons of Korah: A Song upon Alamoth. Title. שׁיר עלמות על קרח לבני למנצח lamnatseach l...
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalms 46:1-11 .-The Church's security, because God is in her, amidst the world's convulsions: as shown in the sudden overthrow...
Our refuge and strength ] the original of Luther's famous Ein' feste Burg. 2, 3. The language is figurative of stress and trouble.
Refuge and strength. — Better, a refuge and stronghold, or a sure stronghold, as in Luther’s hymn, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. A very present help. — Better, often found a help.
Psalms 46:1-11 THERE are two events, one or other of which probably supplies the historical basis of this and the two following psalms. One is Jehoshaphat's deliverance from the combined forces of...
“Our Refuge and Strength” Psalms 46:1-11 The historical origin of this psalm cannot be certainly determined. Probably it was composed when Jerusalem was beleaguered by Sennacherib's hosts, 2 K...
Comment on this great song of confidence seems almost unnecessary so powerfully has it taken hold on the heart of humanity, and so perfectly does it set forth the experience of trusting souls in all...
CONTENTS This is a song or Psalm of holy triumph. The prophet exhorts the Church to make God in Christ her confidence. A reference is made, towards the close of the Psalm, from beholding the desolat...
GOD A STRONG REFUGE ‘God is our refuge and strength.’ Psalms 46:1 The Psalmist who wrote these words knew the happiness of their meaning, for the life into which God does not enter cannot be,...
God [is] our refuge and strength ,.... That is, Christ, who is God as well as man, is the "refuge" for souls to fly unto for safety; as for sensible sinners, in a view of danger, wrath, and misery,...
Psalms 46:1 «To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. » God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Upon Alamoth ] i.e. Upon the Virginals. Virgi...
God is our refuge and strength He hath manifested himself to be so in the course of his providence in time past, and he has engaged to be so in time to come, and will not fail to fulfil his engagem...
God the Protection of His People. To the chief musician for the sons of Korah. A song upon Alamoth. 1 God is our r...
PSALM 46 THE ARGUMENT The occasion of this Psalm is thought to be that happy success, and settlement, and peace which God granted to the people of Israel in David's time, and by his means, 2Sa 8...
God's People's Confidence Is In Him Even In The Face Of Raging Waters ( Psalms 46:1-3 ). Psalms 46:1 ‘God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.' The Psalmist commences w...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah.” See Introduction to Psalms 42 . “ A song upon Alamoth .” Great uncertainty attaches to the meaning of “Alamoth.” Some a...
Alamoth Alamoth, "soprano," from almah, a virgin. Some have thought the alamoth, "virgins," were a temple choir, singing antiphonally to the sheminith, or male choir. ( See Scofield) - ( P...
Psalms 46:1 I. This Psalm is a hymn concerning the kingdom of Christ and of God. It tells us something of the government which Christ has been exercising over the world ever since the beginning of...
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Song upon Alamoth. This Psalm is often called «Martin Luther's Psalm.» Whenever there was any great trouble, Luther used to say, «Let us sing the forty-si...
Psalms 46:4 . A river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God. This was the Gihon, a very copious fountain on the west of Jerusalem, like St. Winnefrid's well in Wales, or the spring...
God is our refuge and strength. A psalm of war and peace The psalm is divided into three parts, as the Selahs at the end of the third and seventh verses indicate. The first is shorter by one ve...
EXPOSITION THIS is a psalm of consolation. Israel, in great peril ( Psalms 46:1-19 , Psalms 46:6 , Psalms 46:8 , Psalms 46:9 ), consoles herself with the thought of God's might, his protect...
God is our Refuge, under whose protection the Church and every individual believer is safe, and Strength, the Source and Fountain of all true strength, whose almighty power can overthrow all enemie...
1 Chronicles 15:20 ; 2 Samuel 22:17-20 ; Deuteronomy 4:7 ; Genesis 22:14 ; Hebrews 6:18 ; Luke 13:34 ; Proverbs 14:26 ; Proverbs 18:10 ; Psalms 48:1 ; Psalms 66:1 ; Psalms 142:5 ; Psalms...