Psalms 89:9

King James Version

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
You rule the swelling of the sea;When its waves rise, You still them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You rule the swelling of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou rulest the ragyng of the sea: when her waues aryse, thou delayest them.

Darby Translation
*Thou* rulest the pride of the sea: when its waves arise, *thou* stillest them.

New King James Version
You rule the raging of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them.

Literal Translation
You rule the pride of the sea; when its waves rise high, You still them.

Easy-to-Read Version
You rule the stormy sea. You can calm its angry waves.

World English Bible
You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

King James Version (1611)
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waues thereof arise; thou stillest them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O LORDE God of hoostes, who is like vnto the in power? thy trueth is rounde aboute the.

Amplified Bible
You rule the swelling of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them.

American Standard Version
Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Bible in Basic English
You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

Update Bible Version
You rule the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, you still them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when its waves arise, thou stillest them.

New English Translation
You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.

Contemporary English Version
You rule the roaring sea and calm its waves.

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai Elohei-Tzva'ot! Who is as mighty as you, Yah? Your faithfulness surrounds you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waues thereof arise, thou stillest them.

George Lamsa Translation
Thou rulest the splendor of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof.

Hebrew Names Version
You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
O LORD God of hosts, who is a mighty one, like unto Thee, O LORD? And Thy faithfulness is round about Thee.

New Living Translation
You rule the oceans. You subdue their storm-tossed waves.

New Life Bible
You rule over the rising sea. When its waves rise, You quiet them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou rulest the power of the sea; and thou calmest the tumult of its waves.

English Revised Version
Thou rulest the pride of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Berean Standard Bible
You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.

New Revised Standard
You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou, rulest over the swelling of the sea, When the rolling waves thereof lift themselves, Thou, dost bid them be still:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-10) Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.

Lexham English Bible
You are ruling the surging of the sea. When its waves rise, you yourself still them.

English Standard Version
You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.

New American Standard Bible
You rule the surging of the sea; When its waves rise, You calm them.

New Century Version
You rule the mighty sea and calm the stormy waves.

Good News Translation
You rule over the powerful sea; you calm its angry waves.

Christian Standard Bible®
You rule the raging sea; when its waves surge, You still them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou art Lord of the power of the see; forsothe thou aswagist the stiryng of the wawis therof.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou [art] ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.

Revised Standard Version
Thou dost rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, thou stillest them.

Contextual Overview

⁵ And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord : thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. ⁶ For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord ? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord ? ⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. ⁸ O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? ⁹ Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. ¹⁰ Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. ¹¹ The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. ¹² The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. ¹³ Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. ¹⁴ Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 29:10, Psalms 65:7, Psalms 66:5, Psalms 66:6, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Psalms 107:25-29, Job 38:8-11, Nahum 1:4, Matthew 8:24-27, Matthew 14:32, Mark 4:39, Mark 4:41

Reciprocal: Job 26:12 - the proud Job 38:11 - but Psalms 44:2 - how thou didst afflict Psalms 107:29 - General Jonah 1:15 - and the Zechariah 8:20 - there Matthew 8:26 - and rebuked

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou rulest the raging of the sea,.... The power, pride, and elation of it, when it swells, and foams, and rages, and becomes boisterous, and threatens vessels upon it with utter ruin and destruction; but the Lord, who has it under his dominion and government, restrains it; he has made and can manage it, and he only: his power over it is seen in assigning it its place, and ordering the waters of it to it when first made; in placing the sand for its boundary by a perpetual decree, which it cannot pass; by commanding the stormy wind to lift up its waves, and by making the storm a calm, and the waves thereof still; see Psalms 107:25, instances of this were at the universal deluge, and at the Red sea:

when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them; when the sea lifts up its waves, and both lift up their voice, and make a noise, and roar, the Lord hushes them, and makes them still and quiet, as a parent its child when it cries, or a master his scholars, when they are noisy and tumultuous; so Christ rebuked the wind, and checked the raging sea, and made it calm, when the ship in which he was with his disciples was covered with its waves; and as this is mentioned here as an instance of the great power and strength of the Lord of hosts, so that was a proof and evidence of the true and proper divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 8:24, all this may be understood, in a mystical sense, of the sea of this world, and the wicked inhabitants of it, who are as the troubled sea, and cannot rest, casting up mire and dirt, reproaching and blaspheming God and man; and particularly of tyrannical princes and potentates, who are like the proud waters and raging waves of the sea; but the Lord on high is mightier than they, and can and does restrain their wrath and rage, so that his people have nothing to fear from them; see Psalms 124:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou rulest the raging of the sea - The pride; the anger; the lifting up of the sea. That is, when the sea is raging and boisterous; when it seems as if everything would be swept away before it, thou hast absolute control over it. There is, perhaps, no more impressive exhibition of divine power than the control which God has over the raging waves of the ocean: and yet this was the power which Jesus exercised over the raging sea of Galilee - showing that he had the power of God. Mark 4:39-41.

When the waves thereof arise - In the lifting up of the waves; when they seem to raise themselves up in defiance.

Thou stillest them - At thy pleasure. They rise no higher than thou dost permit; at thy command they settle down into a calm. So in the troubles of life - the storms - the waves of affliction; they rise as high as God permits, and no higher; when he commands they subside, and leave the mind as calm as the smooth sea when not a breath of wind moves over its surface, or makes a ripple on its placid bosom.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 89:9. Thou rulest the raging of the sea — Whoever has seen the sea in a storm, when its waves run what is called mountain high, must acknowledge that nothing but omnipotent power could rule its raging.

When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. — Thou governest both its flux and reflux. Thou art the Author of storms and calms. There may be a reference here to the passage of the Red Sea, and the strong wind that agitated its waves at that time; as the next verse seems to indicate.