You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
- BSB You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
- NKJV You rule the raging of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them.
- NASB You rule the surging of the sea; When its waves rise, You calm them.
- NLT You rule the oceans. You subdue their storm-tossed waves.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
- Ps 107:25–29For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
- Mark 4:41They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
- Matt 8:24–27Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
- Mark 4:39He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
- Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
- Job 38:8–11“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
- Ps 29:10Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
- Nah 1:4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
- Matt 14:32When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.
- Ps 66:5–6Come, and see God’s deeds — awesome work on behalf of the children of men.
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