“ The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. ”
The Lord of hosts - The God commanding, ordering, marshalling the hosts of heaven - the angels, and the starry worlds. See the notes at Isaiah 1:9 . Compare Psalms 24:10 . The reference here is...
The LORD of hosts [is] (g) with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah. (g) They are assured that God can and will defend his Church from all dangers and enemies.
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...
The LORD of hosts. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3 . refuge . an impregnable place. Hebrew. misgab. Not the same word as in Psalms 46:1 . Selah. Connecting this assured confidence in God's promis...
7. Jehovah of armies is with us. In this verse we are taught how we shall be able to apply to our own use the things which the Scriptures everywhere record concerning the infinite power of G...
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. The Lord of hosts is with us - We, feeble Jesvs, were but a handful of men; but the Lord of hosts - the God of armies, was on...
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. So Isaiah 7:14 ; Isaiah 8:10 . The Church's security again...
Psalms 46-48 form a group which we may assign with little doubt to the reign of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib's army was suddenly destroyed ( 2 Kings 19:35 ). They all strike the same note of gratitude,...
Lord of hosts. — See Note on Psalms 24:10 . Refuge. — Rightly in the margin with idea of height, as giving security.
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...
How was this accomplished in the wars of Joshua? Joshua 10:12 . How was it in the wars of our spiritual Joshua? John 18:6 . Reader, how is it now when God the Holy Ghost speaks in the hearts, and t...
The Lord of hosts [is] with us ,.... The Targum is, "the Word of the Lord of hosts". He whose name is Immanuel, which is, by interpretation, "God with us", Matthew 1:23 ; who is King of kings, and...
The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah. Ver. 7. The Lord of hosts is with us ] Even the Lord, who commandeth far other hosts and armies than the enemy hath any; an...
The heathen raged At David's coming to the throne, and at the setting up of the kingdom of the Son of David. Compare Psalms 2:1-2 . The kingdoms were moved With indignation, and rose up in a tum...
Confidence in God. 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 7 The L ORD...
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In Contrast With The Raging Waters Which Seek To Shake Them God Is To Be Seen As Like A Peaceful River Making Glad His People ( Psalms 46:4-7 ). Psalms 46:4-5 ‘There is a river, the streams whe...
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...
Psalms 46:4-7 It is probable that we have in this Psalm the devotional echo of the great deliverance of Israel from Assyria in the time of Hezekiah. We may call these verses the hymn of the defenc...
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...
The Church's Comfort and Security. To the chief musician, for use in the Temple-services, for the sons of Korah, composed by a member of this talented family, a song upon Alamoth, for soprano voic...
2 Chronicles 13:12 ; 2 Timothy 4:22 ; Isaiah 8:10 ; Matthew 28:20 ; Numbers 14:9 ; Psalms 9:9 ; Psalms 46:11 ; Romans 8:31
Raged — Against God, and against his people. Uttered — He spake to them in his wrath. The earth — The inhabitants of the earth were consumed.