Isaiah 51:15

King James Version

But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, and its waves roar—Yahweh of hosts is His name.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar (the LORD of hosts is His name).

Bible in Basic English
For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am the Lord thy God that deuide the sea, & his waues shall rage, whose name is the Lorde of hoastes.

Darby Translation
And I am Jehovah thy God, who raiseth the sea, so that its waves roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

New King James Version
But I am the LORD your God, Who divided the sea whose waves roared-- The LORD of hosts is His name.

Literal Translation
But I am Jehovah your God, stirring up the sea and making its waves roar; Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

Easy-to-Read Version
"I am the Lord your God, the one who stirs up the sea and makes the waves roar." The Lord All-Powerful is his name.

World English Bible
For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.

King James Version (1611)
But I am the Lord thy God, that diuided the sea, whose waues roared: the Lord of hosts is his Name.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am the LORDE yi God, that make the see to be still, and to rage: whose name is the LORDE of hoostes.

Amplified Bible
"For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of hosts is His name.

American Standard Version
For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

Update Bible Version
For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Yahweh of hosts is his name.

Webster's Bible Translation
But I [am] the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.

New Century Version
I am the Lord your God, who stirs the sea and makes the waves roar. My name is the Lord All-Powerful.

New English Translation
I am the Lord your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves surge. The Lord who commands armies is his name!

Contemporary English Version
I will help them because I am your God, the Lord All-Powerful, who makes the ocean roar.

Complete Jewish Bible
For I am Adonai your God, who stirs up the sea, who makes its waves roar — Adonai -Tzva'ot is my name.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I am the Lorde thy God that deuided the Sea, when his waues roared: the Lord of hostes is his Name.

George Lamsa Translation
For I am the LORD your God who rebukes the sea, and its waves are calm; the LORD of hosts is his name.

Hebrew Names Version
For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar: the LORD of Hosts is his name.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I am the LORD thy God, who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar; the LORD of hosts is His name.

New Living Translation
For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea, causing its waves to roar. My name is the Lord of Heaven's Armies.

New Life Bible
For I am the Lord your God, Who fills the sea with action so that its waves sound: The Lord of All is His name.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
for I am thy God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to roar: the Lord of hosts is my name.

English Revised Version
For I am the LORD thy God, which stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar: the LORD of hosts is his name.

Berean Standard Bible
For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-the LORD of Hosts is His name.

New Revised Standard
For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, I - Yahweh, am thy God, Who threw into commotion the sea And the waves thereof roared, - Yahweh of hosts, is his name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the waves thereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.

Lexham English Bible
For I am Yahweh, your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name.

English Standard Version
I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name.

New American Standard Bible
"For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar (the LORD of armies is His name).

Good News Translation
"I am the Lord your God; I stir up the sea and make its waves roar. My name is the Lord Almighty!

Christian Standard Bible®
For I am Yahweh your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— His name is Yahweh of Hosts.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Y am thi Lord God, that disturble the see, and the wawis therof wexen greet; the Lord of oostis is my name.

Revised Standard Version
For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar--the LORD of hosts is his name.

Young's Literal Translation
And I [am] Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? ¹⁰ Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? ¹¹ Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. ¹² I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; ¹³ And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? ¹⁴ The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. ¹⁵ But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name. ¹⁶ And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that divided: Isaiah 51:10, Nehemiah 9:11, Job 26:12, Psalms 74:13, Psalms 114:3-5, Psalms 136:13, Jeremiah 31:35, Amos 9:5, Amos 9:6

The Lord: Isaiah 47:4, Isaiah 48:2, Isaiah 54:5, Jeremiah 10:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:21 - the Lord Isaiah 43:16 - maketh Isaiah 44:27 - Be dry Luke 21:25 - the sea

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I am the Lord thy God that divided the sea, whose waves roared,.... Referring to the dividing of the Red sea by a violent wind, at which time the waves of it doubtless roared till they were made to stand quietly, as a wall on the right and left, for the Israelites to pass through, as in Isaiah 51:10. Or this is to be understood of the power of God at any time in stilling and quieting the sea when it rages; which signification the word s here used has, as Aben Ezra observes; which power is expressed by a rebuke or reproof of it. And so the Targum,

"I am the Lord thy God, that rebuketh the sea:''

and in like manner the Syriac version; see Psalms 106:9 with which compare Matthew 8:26. Now he that can do, and oftentimes has done this, can rebuke, restrain, and still the fury of the oppressors, the rage of the persecutors, Rome Pagan or Papal, and deliver out of their hands, Psalms 65:7:

the Lord of hosts is his name: the Lord of armies in heaven and earth, and therefore is able to do these things in a natural, civil, and religious sense.

s רגע "qui tranquillat" Gakater; "faciens quiescere", so some in Vitringa; and the word has the signification of rest and quietness in ver 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But I am the Lord thy God - In order to show them that he was able to save them, God again refers to the fact that he had divided the sea, and delivered their fathers from bondage and oppression.

That divided the sea - The Red Sea. The Chaldee renders this, ‘That rebuked the sea.’ The Septuagint, Ὁ ταράσσων ho tarassōn - ‘Who disturbs the sea.’ or, who excites a tempest. Lowth renders it, ‘Who stilleth at once the sea.’ The Hebrew word is the same which occurs in Isaiah 51:4, where it is rendered, ‘I will make my judgment to rest’ (רגע râga‛). Probably the idea here is, that he restrains the raging of the sea as if by fear; that is, makes it tranquil or still by rebuking it. He had this power over all raging seas, and he had shown it in a special manner by his rebuking the Red Sea and making it rest, and causing a way to be made through it, when the children of Israel came out of Egypt.

The Lord of hosts is his name - (See the notes at Isaiah 1:9; compare the notes at Isaiah 42:8).