Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Parallel translations
- WEB who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
- BSB You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
- NKJV You who still the noise of the seas, The noise of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.
- NASB Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the turmoil of the nations.
- NLT You quieted the raging oceans with their pounding waves and silenced the shouting of the nations.
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Quick answer
God stills the roaring seas and waves and the turmoil of the nations. It shows His sovereign control over both nature and peoples.
Overview
God quiets the chaos of the sea and likewise the tumult of the nations, joining mastery of creation with mastery of history. The same power that calms storms governs human affairs. Jesus' stilling of the storm revealed this divine authority present in Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 89:9Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
- Isa 17:12–13Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
- Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
- John 18:6As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
- Ps 107:29He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
- Ps 76:10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
- Ps 2:1–4Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Matt 8:26–27And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
- Job 38:8–11Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
- Jonah 1:15So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
- Ps 74:23Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
- Ps 104:6–9Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
- Jonah 1:4But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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