Psalms 46:5

3 ^aThough its waters roar and be troubled,
Though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah

4 There is a ^ariver whose streams shall make glad the ^bcity of God,
The holy place of the¹ tabernacle of the Most High.

5 God is ^ain the midst of her, she shall not be¹ moved;
God shall help her, just¹ at the break of dawn.

6 ^aThe nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice, the earth melted.

7 The ^aLord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

8 Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has made desolations in the earth.

9 ^aHe makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
^bHe breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
^cHe burns the chariot in the fire.

10 Be still, and know that I am God;
^aI will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!

11 The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Psalms 46:5

God is in the midst of her - God is in the midst of the "city" referred to above - the "city of God." That is,

(a) he dwelt there by the visible symbol of his presence, the Shekinah;

(b) he was there "actually" as a help and a protector.

It was his chosen abode, and as long as such a Being dwelt in the city, they had nothing to fear.

God shall help her - That is, in her danger, he will interpose to save her. This is language such as would be used in reference to a place that was besieged, and would well apply to the state of things when Jerusalem was besieged by the armies of Assyria under Sennacherib. The language expresses the confidence of the people in the time of the impending danger.

And that right early - Margin, "when the morning appeareth." Literally, "in the faces of the morning," as the word is commonly used; or, more literally, in the "turning" of the morning - for the verb from which the word is derived means properly "to turn," and then "to turn to or from any one." The noun is applied to the face or countenance, because the person is "turned" to us when we see his countenance. The poetic idea here seems to refer to the day as having turned away "from" us at night, and then as turning about "toward" us in the morning, after having gone, as it were, to the greatest distance from us. "Possibly" there may be an allusion here to what occurred in the camp of the Assyrians, when the discovery that the angel of the Lord had smitten them was made early in the morning, or when men arose in the morning: "The angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose in the morning" (that is, when men arose in the morning), "behold, they were all dead corpses," Isaiah 37:36.

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