Psalm 46

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Contents 1 General information 2 Settings by composers 3 Text & translations 3.1 Church of England 1662 Book of Common Prayer 3.2 English translation by Henry Ainsworth

General information

Settings by composers

Text & translations

Church of England 1662 Book of Common Prayer

English text

1 God is our hope and strength : a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved : and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea;

3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell : and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.

4 The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God : the holy place of the tabernacle of the most Highest.

5 God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed : God shall help her, and that right early.

6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved : but God hath shewed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.

7 The Lord of hosts is with us : the God of Jacob is our refuge.

8 O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord : what destruction he hath brought upon the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease in all the world : he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the chariots in the fire.

10 Be still then, and know that I am God : I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The Lord of hosts is with us : the God of Jacob is our refuge.

English translation by Henry Ainsworth

English translation
- The Book of Psalmes : Englished both in Prose and Meter (Amsterdam 1612) carried to New England on the Mayflower

An hopeful-shelter and a strength,
unto us God wilbee:
A succour in distresses, find
vehemently shal wee.
Therfore we wil not be a-frayed,
al-though the earth change place:
and though the mountaynes moved be,
unto hart of the seas.

Though waters therof make a noyse,
though muddy be shal they:
though for the haughty-ness therof,
the mountains quake Selah.
Ther is a flood, the streams therof,
shal gladd the citie of God:
the holy-place, the places of
the Highest-ones abode.

6.God is in middest of the same,
it shal not moved bee:
at looking-forth of th'early-morn,
God help the same wil bee.
The nations did make a noyse,
the kingdoms moved were:
give-forth did he his thondring-voice,
the earth did melt-with-fear.

8.The God of armies is with us,
the everbeing-JAH:
the God of Jakob is for us
a refuge-hye Selah.
Jehovahs operations,
O come-on ye & see:
that wondrous-desolations
put in the earth dooth hee.

10.Unto the utmost end of th'earth,
he maketh cease the warrs:
he breaks the bow, and cutts the spear,
in fyre he burns the carrs.

11.Surcease & know, that I am God:
exalted be wil I
among the heathens: through the earth
Ile be exalted-hye.

12.The God of armies is with us
the ever-being-JAH:
the God of Jakob is for us
a refuge-hye Selah.