For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. *Alamoth is a musical term.

• ¹God is our refuge and strength,
• a very present help in trouble.

• ²Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes,
• though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
• ³though its waters roar and are troubled,
• though the mountains tremble with their swelling.

• Selah.

• ⁴There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad,
• the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

• ⁵God is in her midst. She shall not be moved.
• God will help her at dawn.

• ⁶The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved.
• He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

• ⁷Yahweh of Armies is with us.
• The God of Jacob is our refuge.

• Selah.

• ⁸Come, see Yahweh’s works,
• what desolations he has made in the earth.

• ⁹He makes wars cease to the end of the earth.
• He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear.
• He burns the chariots in the fire.

• ¹⁰“Be still, and know that I am God.
• I will be exalted among the nations.
• I will be exalted in the earth.”

• ¹¹Yahweh of Armies is with us.
• The God of Jacob is our refuge.

• Selah.