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 of Sennacherib's invading hosts (cf. Psalms 46:8-10), which hitherto had swept on irresistibly. Two coincidences with history occur: in Psalms 46:4, "the city of God," just as Isaiah 36:1 informs us that all "the defensed cities of Judah" except Jerusalem, the mother city, had fallen before Sennacherib; also in Psalms 46:10, "Know that I am God ... I will be exalted in the earth," is God's reply to Hezekiah's prayer, "O Lord our God, save us ... that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord."
Title. - A song upon Alamoth, х `ªlaamowt (H5961)] - i:e., after the virgin-manner-a soprano tone or key in music, like voice of virgin (1 Chronicles 15:20). Or else an instrument played on by virgins, like the old English instrument the 'virginal.'
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble - "present;" literally, 'found' by experience to be so.