Psalms 46:8
For God is the King of all the earth. Sing psalms wisely.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
In Context
7Sing psalms to our God, sing psalms. Sing psalms to our King, sing psalms.
9God will reign over the peoples. God sits upon his holy throne.
Cross References
Exodus 10:7Then the servants of Pharaoh said to him: “How long must we endure this scandal? Release the men, in order to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Do you not see that Egypt is perishing?”
Exodus 14:30And so the Lord freed Israel on that day from the hand of the Egyptians.
Numbers 23:23There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor any divination in Israel. In their times, it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God has wrought.
Joshua 11:20For it was the sentence of the Lord that their hearts would be hardened, and that they would fight against Israel and fall, and that they did not deserve any clemency, and that they should perish, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Psalms 59:10Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject.
Psalms 92:4before the noise of many waters. Wondrous are the surges of the sea; wondrous is the Lord on high.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 46:7-11
Confidence in God. 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. 8 Come, behold the works of the Lord , what desolations he hath made in the earth. 9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The Lord… Read the whole commentary →