Bible Study Podcast, episode 386. Today the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Psalms with Psalm 46 and 47.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We have two shorter Psalms today. I'm hoping to get through both of them.

They are both Psalms from the Sons of Corah, and they are praise Psalms. The first one, Psalm 46, goes like this.

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth give way,

and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, and the mountains

quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place

where the most high dwells. God is within her, she will not fall.

God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall. He lifts his voice,

the earth melts. The God Almighty is with us. The God of Jacob is our fortress. Come and see what

the Lord has done. The desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars

cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bows and shatters the spear. He burns the shields with fire.

He says, be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted

in the earth. The Lord Almighty is with us. The God of Jacob

is our fortress. We have to remember that this is written in a small country, a relatively

insignificant country from a geopolitical or power point of view. And so this brings good news to a

people who are often being bullied by their neighbors, by the

Assyrians, or by the Babylonians, or by the Egyptians. They're kind of in a crossroad there.

And the psalmist says that God is our refuge, that God is our strength, not our own mighty

armies, because they are not as mighty as our neighbors, an ever-present help

in trouble. I think part of the problem there is it's more like an ever-present help and

ever-present trouble. We're talking about a place where things don't seem all that certain.

And so it says we won't fear, we won't fear even if the earth doesn't seem stable,

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