The Message Bible MSG
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him.
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To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' -- A song. God [is] to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.
2 We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake,
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Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas.
3 Before the rush and roar of oceans, the tremors that shift mountains. Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God of angel armies protects us.
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Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.
4 River fountains splash joy, cooling God's city, this sacred haunt 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.
5 God lives here, the streets are safe, God at your service from crack of dawn.
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God [is] in her midst -- she is not moved, God doth help her at the turn of the morn!
6 Godless nations rant and rave, kings and kingdoms threaten, but Earth does anything he says.
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Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.
7 Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God of angel armies protects us.
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Jehovah of Hosts [is] with us, A tower for us [is] the God of Jacob. Selah.
8 Attention, all! See the marvels of God! He plants flowers and trees all over the earth,
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Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth,
9 Bans war from pole to pole, breaks all the weapons across his knee.
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Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.
10 "Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything."
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Desist, and know that I [am] God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.
11 Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God of angel armies protects us.
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Jehovah of hosts [is] with us, A tower for us [is] the God of Jacob! Selah.
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