Psalms Chapter 46 verse 4 Holy Bible
There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
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There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
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There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.
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There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
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Though its waters shall roar and be disturbed, though the mountains shake with the swelling of it. Selah.
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There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, The holy place of the tents of the Most High.
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A river -- its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
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Psalms 46 : 4 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God. In contrast with the scene of tumult and disturbance in the world at large, which the writer has presented to us in vers. 2, 3, he now shows us, resting in perfect peace and tranquillity, "the city of God," threatened, indeed, by the nations, but undismayed by them, and calmly trusting in the protection of the God who is "in the midst of her." To this city he assigns a "river, the streams whereof make her glad;" imagery in which we may recognize the perennial fountain of God's grace - that "pure river of water of life," which, welling forth from the throne of God and of the Lamb, continually refreshes and gladdens the Church of Christ (Revelation 22:1), whether her dwell-tug-place be the earthly or the heavenly Jerusalem. The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High (comp. Psalm 43:3). The direct application is, of course, to the earthly Jerusalem, which the armies of Sennacherib were threatening.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) A river . . .--Heb., n?har, i.e., a perennial stream, as distinguished from n?chal, a torrent bed dry except in the rainy season. Plainly, then, the "Cedron" is not here alluded to. But many commentators think "Siloam" is intended. (See Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, p. 180, and comp. Isaiah 12:3; Ezekiel 47:1-5; John 7:37.)There may not, however, be any such local allusion. The river, flowing calmly and smoothly along, may be only a symbol of the peace and blessing of the Divine presence, as the tumult and tempest of the sea in the last verse are of the world's noisy troubles. Indeed, the LXX. (comp. Prayer Book version) seems to connect the river of this verse with the waters of the preceding.Streams.--See Note on Psalm 1:3, where the same word occurs.
