Psalms 46:6

Nations rage and kingdoms totter, but at God's voice the earth melts. It matters because the mightiest human powers dissolve before God's word.

Cross-references · 28

• Amos 9:5For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
• Ps 18:13Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
• Hab 3:5–6Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
• Mic 1:4The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
• Nah 1:5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
• Joel 2:11Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?
• Ps 2:1–4Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• 2 Pet 3:10–12But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
• Josh 2:9She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
• 2 Chr 20:20–24They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
• Amos 9:13“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
• 2 Chr 20:1After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
• Isa 64:1–2Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.
• Josh 2:24They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”
• Amos 1:2He said: “Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.”
• Jer 25:30“Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, “‘Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
• Isa 37:21–36Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
• Ps 68:33To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
• Ps 83:2–8For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
• Isa 14:12–16How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
• 2 Chr 14:9–13Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million troops and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.
• Rev 6:13–14The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.
• Hab 3:10–11The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
• Josh 2:11As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
• Isa 8:9–10Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
• Ps 68:8The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai — at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
• Ps 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
• Rev 20:11I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

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