The Lord rules over the floodwaters. The Lord reigns as king forever.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
- KJV The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
- BSB The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
- NKJV The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever.
- NASB ¶The Lord sat as King at the flood; Yes, the Lord sits as King forever.
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Quick answer
The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood and reigns as King forever. It declares God's sovereign rule over judgment and history.
Overview
Recalling the Flood, the psalm affirms that God reigns supreme even over the most catastrophic events. His kingship is not threatened by chaos but rules over it eternally. This enthroned King is revealed in Christ, who reigns forever over all things.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Gen 6:17I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Ps 10:16Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
- 1 Tim 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Mark 4:41They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
- Gen 8:1–2God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Job 38:8–11“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
- Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
- Ps 99:1Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
- Ps 2:6–9“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
- Dan 2:44In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
- Ps 29:3Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
- Job 38:25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;
- Ps 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
- Ps 93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
- Ps 104:6–9You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
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