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though its waters roar and foam,
    though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Selah(A)

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though its waters roar(A) and foam(B)
    and the mountains quake(C) with their surging.[a]

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  1. Psalm 46:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 11.

22 Do you not fear me? says the Lord;
    Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
    a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
    though they roar, they cannot pass over it.(A)

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22 Should you not fear(A) me?” declares the Lord.
    “Should you not tremble(B) in my presence?
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,(C)
    an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.
The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail;
    they may roar,(D) but they cannot cross it.

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The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
    the floods have lifted up their voice;
    the floods lift up their roaring.
More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,
    more majestic than the waves[a] of the sea,
    majestic on high is the Lord!(A)

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  1. 93.4 Cn: Heb majestic are the waves

The seas(A) have lifted up, Lord,
    the seas have lifted up their voice;(B)
    the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.(C)
Mightier than the thunder(D) of the great waters,
    mightier than the breakers(E) of the sea—
    the Lord on high is mighty.(F)

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He removes mountains, and they do not know it
    when he overturns them in his anger;
he shakes the earth out of its place,
    and its pillars tremble;(A)

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He moves mountains(A) without their knowing it
    and overturns them in his anger.(B)
He shakes the earth(C) from its place
    and makes its pillars tremble.(D)

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The mountains quake before him,
    and the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
    the world and all who live in it.(A)

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The mountains quake(A) before him
    and the hills melt away.(B)
The earth trembles(C) at his presence,
    the world and all who live in it.(D)

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Then the mountains will melt under him,
    and the valleys will burst open
like wax near the fire,
    like waters poured down a slope.(A)

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The mountains melt(A) beneath him(B)
    and the valleys split apart,(C)
like wax before the fire,
    like water rushing down a slope.

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12 Woe, the thunder of many peoples,
    they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
The roar of nations,
    they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!(A)
13 [[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]][a]
    he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
    and like whirling dust before the storm.(B)

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  1. 17.13 Heb mss Syr lack When . . . waters

12 Woe to the many nations that rage(A)
    they rage like the raging sea!(B)
Woe to the peoples who roar(C)
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!(D)
13 Although the peoples roar(E) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes(F) them they flee(G) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(H) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.(I)

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The mountains skipped like rams,
    the hills like lambs.(A)

Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
    O Jordan, that you turn back?
O mountains, that you skip like rams?
    O hills, like lambs?

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,(B)

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the mountains leaped(A) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?(B)
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
    you hills, like lambs?

Tremble, earth,(C) at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,

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Lord, when you went out from Seir,
    when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled,
    and the heavens poured;
    the clouds indeed poured water.(A)
The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.(B)

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“When you, Lord, went out(A) from Seir,(B)
    when you marched from the land of Edom,
the earth shook,(C) the heavens poured,
    the clouds poured down water.(D)
The mountains quaked(E) before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.

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20 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found,

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20 Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found.(A)

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25 The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on rock.

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25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

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And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and people of Judah,
judge between me
    and my vineyard.(A)

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“Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard.(A)

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The cords of death encompassed me;
    the torrents of perdition assailed me;(A)

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The cords of death(A) entangled me;
    the torrents(B) of destruction overwhelmed me.

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