though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
Parallel translations
- KJV Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
- BSB though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah
- NKJV Though its waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah
- NASB Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah
- NLT Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge! Interlude
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- Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
- Jer 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t pass over it.’
- Job 9:5–6He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
- Nah 1:5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
- Judg 5:4–5“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
- Mic 1:4The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
- Ps 114:4–7The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
- Rev 16:20Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
- Isa 5:3“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
- Ps 18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Job 38:11and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’
- Matt 7:25The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
- Rev 17:15He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
- Isa 17:12–13Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
- 1 Kgs 19:11He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.” Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.
- Jer 4:24I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
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