Ps 46 God is our refuge and strength,an ever-present help in trouble.2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging." The Psalmist is carefully teaching God is a refuge in the same way He produced and sustains the sacred mountains. How did God produce the majestic mountains? He carefully applied the axioms by the same way the sparkling water flows under the capital city abundantly satisfies the unquenchable thirst of the private citizens. Gods pronounced axioms constituted the foundation of life that flows under the city. This is Gods constantly present secure refuge.  

 Ps 46 2Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging." Why does the Psalmist compare the crumbling foundations of a civil society to the created earth being consumed by the raging water? Because God caused the earth by reasonably speaking law, covenants, curses, decrees, statutes and promises in establishing the order and symmetry. In the same way God sustains the social order by the same reasonable description in the axioms. When the natural law is redefined, the corrupt nation merely experiences the metaphor of the treeless mountains hopelessly losing their cracked foundations and inevitably falling into the sea. The theme of this Psalm God reverses the destruction by the pronouncement of bringing blessing and cursing together. The law is reestablished by following the pronounced curse.  

Ps 46 4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,the holy place where the Most High dwells.5 God is within her, she will not fall;God will help her at break of day.6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts."The voice of God is the pronounced curse of the law toward law breakers. Gods pronounce the fierce heat that melts the created earth. The God who pronounces curses making the mountains fall into the sea, applies the heat of curse to purify, in melting the earth. Consequently, He invariably contains the violent destruction of the civil statutes in reversing the harsh judgements by the pronounced curse. Gods "streams that make glad" are applied in blessing or cursing.  

 Ps 46 8 "Come and see what the Lord has done,the desolation's he has brought on the earth.He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth.He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;he burns the shields with fire." The Psalmist is respectfully inviting us to recover the historic battlefield and walk over the lifeless bodies of the enemies of God. God never lowers divine justice. He repeatedly gets vengeance on the abusers who redefine His law. No wicked man escapes the plaintive voice of the penal law that  bitterly curses. We must respond appropriately to the deliberate destruction of Gods statutes with legal wars. We are undoubtedly required to morally justify God in swift punishment.

 He says, Ps 46 10“Be still, and know that I am God;I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth.” This verse is used often with no historical context. Do you adequately understand the Psalmist is carefully teaching we are most like God when we speak the eternal curse of death? That shrill voice, that says "Be still and know I am God!"The sacred voice of God in pronouncing vengeance on His enemies! You have not been in the divine presence of God who is all fluff and happy. That is a unknown god of your overwrought imagination!

Ps 46 11 The Lord Almighty is with us;the God of Jacob is our fortress." The Psalmist resolves the question," How befall the Lord our successful defense when the civil statutes have been torn down?" God is never lowered in the pronounced law, covenants, curses, decrees, statutes and promises. His authoritative pronouncements are not maybes. He continuously pronounces the established kingdom. We live peacefully by the immutable word of God.