King James Version translates that last phrase “a very present help in trouble.” More literally, the Hebrew says God is “much to be found,” easy to find. You just have to turn to him, Isaiah said. He is Yahweh Armies. The nations were uncomfortably like a tsunami threatening to overwhelm Israel, but like Isaiah the psalm reminds people that Jerusalem has another watercourse in its midst. There’s an irony about this comment, because the city’s position on a mountain ridge means that a wide and deep