For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
Parallel translations
- KJV For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
- BSB For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
- NKJV For He commands and raises the stormy wind, Which lifts up the waves of the sea.
- NASB For He spoke and raised a stormy wind, Which lifted the waves of the sea.
- NLT He spoke, and the winds rose, stirring up the waves.
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Cross-references · 8
- Jonah 1:4But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
- Matt 8:24Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
- Ps 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
- Ps 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
- Ps 93:3The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
- Ps 135:7who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings the wind out of his treasuries;
- Ps 105:31He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
- John 6:18The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.
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