The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
Parallel translations
- KJV The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
- BSB The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
- NKJV The floods have lifted up, O Lord, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.
- NASB ¶The floods have lifted up, Lord, The floods have lifted up their voice, The floods lift up their pounding waves.
- NLT The floods have risen up, O Lord. The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 96:11Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
- Ps 69:1–2For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
- Jer 46:7–8“Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
- Isa 55:12For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
- Ps 124:3–5then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
- Ps 18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Ps 98:7–8Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
- 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!
- Rev 17:15He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
- Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Ps 69:14–16Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
- Ps 107:25–26For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
- Rev 12:15The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
- Jonah 2:3For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
- Acts 4:25–27who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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