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“Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.”
Psalms 46:10 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
  • KJV Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
  • BSB “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
  • NKJV Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!
  • NASB “Stop striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted on the earth.”

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Quick answer

God commands, 'Be still, and know that I am God,' for He will be exalted among the nations. It matters because it calls people to cease striving and acknowledge God's supremacy.

Overview

The call to 'be still' is chiefly a summons to stop raging and resisting and to recognize God's sovereign rule, though it also comforts His people with rest in Him. God declares His certain exaltation over all nations and the whole earth. This points to the day when every knee bows to Christ and God is glorified in all the earth.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 16

  • Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
  • Hab 2:20But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
  • Ezek 38:23I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Zech 2:13Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
  • Ps 83:18that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
  • Isa 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
  • Ps 57:5Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!
  • 1 Chr 29:11Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
  • Ps 21:13Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power.
  • Isa 5:16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
  • Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
  • Exod 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”
  • 1 Kgs 18:36At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
  • 1 Sam 17:46Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
  • Rev 15:3–4They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
  • 2 Kgs 19:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 46:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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