Instead, God is calling them to look to Him and not their enemies, and He promises to fight for them. It could be a call from God to His people to pause and think of His greatness while avoiding their ‘human’ efforts to win their fights, as their battle strategies are not very helpful. In one of the major interpretations, ‘Be still’ is also believed to be a calling to ‘stop striving’ during the battle.
Interpretation #3 To hold back and be humble While the verse here means that God is directly wielding His authority and the listener must stop whatever they are doing, the verse is known and taken most of the time for comfort and strength. ‘And know that I am God’ means God is declaring that He has authority over everything and does not tolerate disobedience. Here ‘Be still’ means to stop the persecution. In another interpretation, Psalm 46: 10 also means a warning to the group or the listener who want to cause harm to God’s followers or children, fighting or frightening them. Thus, it implies that God has the authority over everything that is created on earth equally, even if the person may or may not follow or accept God as an authoritative figure. Lastly, ‘I will be exalted in the earth’ is similar to the previous phrase. In other words, God will be heard by the people who didn’t know about Him. ‘I will be exalted among the heathen’ means that God will be praised or understood by the people who do not follow him.
‘Be still, and know that I am God’ means relax or pause from the certain thought or action that often implies a person’s mental state.
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