Lexicon :: Strong's H4131 - môṭ

‘Now if your fellow countryman becomes poor and his hand falters with you [that is, he has trouble repaying you for something], then you are to help and sustain him, [with courtesy and consideration] like [you would] a stranger or a temporary resident [without property], so that he may live among you.

‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,

In due time their foot will slip;

For the day of their disaster is at hand,

And their doom hurries to meet them.’

Tremble [reverently] before Him, all the earth;

The world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

“The folds of his flesh are joined together,

Firm on him and immobile [when he moves].

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;

For throughout all generations I will not be in adversity [for nothing bad will happen to me].”

And my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”

And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.

He does not put out his money at interest [to a fellow Israelite],

And does not take a bribe against the innocent.

He who does these things will never be shaken.

I have set the LORD continually before me;

Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

My steps have held closely to Your paths;

My feet have not staggered.

For the king [confidently] trusts in the LORD,

And through the lovingkindness (faithfulness, goodness) of the Most High he will never be shaken.

As for me, in my prosperity I said,

“I shall never be moved.”

For I pray, “May they not rejoice over me,

Who, when my foot slips, would boast against me.”

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change

And though the mountains be shaken and slip into the heart of the seas,

God is in the midst of her [His city], she will not be moved;

God will help her when the morning dawns.

Because of the voice of the enemy,

Because of the pressure of the wicked;

For they bring down trouble on me,

And in anger they persecute me.

Cast your burden on the LORD [release it] and He will sustain and uphold you;

He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (slip, fall, fail).

You have made the land quake, You have split it open;

Heal its rifts, for it shakes and totters.

He alone is my rock and my salvation,

My defense and my strong tower; I will not be shaken or disheartened.

He only is my rock and my salvation;

My fortress and my defense, I will not be shaken or discouraged.

The rulers do not know nor do they understand;

They walk on in the darkness [of complacent satisfaction];

All the foundations of the earth [the fundamental principles of the administration of justice] are shaken.

The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty and splendor;

The LORD has clothed and encircled Himself with strength;

the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved.

If I say, “My foot has slipped,”

Your compassion and lovingkindness, O LORD, will hold me up.

Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns;

Indeed, the world is firmly and securely established, it shall not be moved;

He will judge and rule the people with fairness.”

He established the earth on its foundations,

So that it will not be moved forever and ever.

He will never be shaken;

The righteous will be remembered forever.

A Song of [fn]Ascents.

Those who trust in and rely on the LORD [with confident expectation]

Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever.

“Let burning coals fall upon them;

Let them be thrown into the fire,

Into deep [water] pits from which they cannot rise.

The [consistently] righteous will never be shaken,

But the wicked will not inhabit the earth.

A man will not be established by wickedness,

But the root of the [consistently] righteous will not be moved.

Rescue those who are being taken away to death,

And those who stagger to the slaughter, Oh hold them back [from their doom]!

Like a muddied fountain and a polluted spring

Is a righteous man who yields and compromises his integrity before the wicked.

The earth is broken completely apart,

The earth is split apart,

The earth is shaken violently.

He who is too impoverished for such an offering [to give to his god]

Chooses a tree that will not rot;

He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman

To [carve and] set up an idol that will not totter.

So the craftsman encourages the goldsmith,

And he who smooths metal with the smith’s hammer encourages him who beats the anvil,

Saying of the soldering (welding), “That is good”;

And he fastens the idol with nails,

So that it will not totter nor be moved.

“For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,

But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you,

Nor will My covenant of peace be shaken,”

Says the LORD who has compassion on you.