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King James Version

Psalms 93:3

The floods have lifted up, O Lord , the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   The Topic Concordance - Government;   Power;   Strength;   Surety;   Witness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sea, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Flood, the;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Floods;   Lift;   Voice;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for February 15;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
The rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh,The rivers have lifted up their voice,The rivers lift up their pounding waves.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The floods have lifted up, O Lord , The floods have lifted up their voice, The floods lift up their pounding waves.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The fluddes are risen O God, the fluddes haue lyft vp their noyse: the fluddes haue lyft vp their waues.
Darby Translation
The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.
New King James Version
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.
Literal Translation
The floods have lifted up; O Jehovah, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods have lifted their roaring waves.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , the ocean roars. The mighty ocean sounds like thunder as the waves crash on the shore.
World English Bible
The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
King James Version (1611)
The floods haue lifted vp, O Lord, the floods haue lifted vp their voice: the floods lift vp their waues.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From that tyme forth hath yi seate bene prepared, thou art from euerlastinge.
THE MESSAGE
Sea storms are up, God , Sea storms wild and roaring, Sea storms with thunderous breakers. Stronger than wild sea storms, Mightier than sea-storm breakers, Mighty God rules from High Heaven.
Amplified Bible
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their pounding waves.
American Standard Version
The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.
Bible in Basic English
The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.
Update Bible Version
The floods have lifted up, O Yahweh, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.
Webster's Bible Translation
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift their waves.
New English Translation
The waves roar, O Lord , the waves roar, the waves roar and crash.
Contemporary English Version
The ocean is roaring, Lord ! The sea is pounding hard.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai , the deep is raising up, the deep is raising up its voice, the deep is raising its crashing waves.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The floodes haue lifted vp, O Lorde: the floodes haue lifted vp their voyce: the floods lift vp their waues.
George Lamsa Translation
The rivers are full flowing, O LORD; the rivers have lifted up their voice; the rivers are flowing with purity.
Hebrew Names Version
The floods have lifted up, LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
New Living Translation
The floods have risen up, O Lord . The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves.
New Life Bible
The floods have lifted up, O Lord. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their beating waves.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices,
English Revised Version
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Berean Standard Bible
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD, the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
New Revised Standard
The floods have lifted up, O Lord , the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The floods have lifted up, O Yahweh, The floods have lifted up - their voice, The floods have lifted up - their dashing waves.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(92-3) The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,
Lexham English Bible
The rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh; the rivers have lifted up their rumbling; the rivers have lifted up their pounding.
English Standard Version
The floods have lifted up, O Lord , the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
New American Standard Bible
The floods have lifted up, LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice, The floods lift up their pounding waves.
New Century Version
Lord , the seas raise, the seas raise their voice. The seas raise up their pounding waves.
Good News Translation
The ocean depths raise their voice, O Lord ; they raise their voice and roar.
Christian Standard Bible®
The floods have lifted up, Lord , the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their pounding waves.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God, thi seete was maad redi fro that tyme; thou art fro the world. Lord, the flodis han reisid; the flodis han reisid her vois. Flodis reisiden her wawis; of the voicis of many watris.
Young's Literal Translation
Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.
Revised Standard Version
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their roaring.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. 2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting. 3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord , the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. 4 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. 5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord , for ever.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The floods: Psalms 18:4, Psalms 69:1, Psalms 69:2, Psalms 69:14-16, Isaiah 17:12, Isaiah 17:13, Jeremiah 46:7, Jeremiah 46:8, Jonah 2:3, Revelation 12:15, Revelation 17:15

lifted: Psalms 96:11, Psalms 98:8, Isaiah 55:12

the floods lift: Psalms 2:1-3, Psalms 107:25, Psalms 107:26, Psalms 124:3-5, Acts 4:25-27

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:17 - bring Numbers 24:7 - many waters 2 Samuel 22:5 - the floods 2 Samuel 22:17 - he drew 2 Kings 19:28 - thy rage Job 9:8 - treadeth Job 26:12 - divideth Job 38:11 - Hitherto Psalms 29:3 - many waters Psalms 46:3 - the waters Psalms 65:7 - noise Psalms 83:2 - lifted Psalms 89:9 - General Psalms 124:5 - the proud Psalms 144:7 - deliver me Isaiah 5:30 - like Isaiah 37:29 - rage Jeremiah 5:22 - placed Jeremiah 31:35 - when Jeremiah 51:42 - General Jeremiah 51:55 - her waves Ezekiel 26:3 - as the sea Ezekiel 27:26 - great Hosea 5:10 - like Amos 9:5 - shall rise Jonah 1:15 - and the Habakkuk 3:10 - the deep Matthew 8:26 - and rebuked Matthew 14:25 - walking Mark 4:39 - he arose Mark 6:51 - and the Luke 6:48 - the flood Luke 8:23 - came Luke 21:25 - the sea Romans 8:39 - height

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice,.... The Targum adds,

"in a song,''

taking the words in a good sense; and so some of the ancients, as Jerome particularly, understood them of the apostles and their ministrations; who lifted up their voice like a trumpet, which went into all the world, and unto the ends of the earth; and who came with the fulness of the gifts and graces of the Spirit; and were attended with a force and power which bore down all before them: but rather by "the floods" are meant the enemies of Christ, his kingdom, and interest; and by their "lifting up their voice", the opposition made by them thereunto; see Isaiah 8:7, this was fulfilled in the Jews and Gentiles, who raged, like foaming waves of the sea, against Christ, and lifted up their voices to have him crucified; in the Roman emperors, and in the ten persecutions under them; in those floods of errors and heresies, which the dragon has cast out of his mouth to devour the church of Christ, against which the Spirit of the Lord has lifted up a standard in all ages; in the antichristian kingdoms, compared to many waters, on which the whore of Rome is said to sit, Revelation 17:1 and especially in antichrist himself, who has opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, his tabernacle, and they that dwell therein; and will be further fulfilled in the last persecution and slaying of the witnesses, and in the Gog and Magog army, which shall encompass the beloved city and camp of the saints. Kimchi interprets it of Gog and Magog, and of the kings that shall be gathered together to fight against Jerusalem:

the floods lift up their waves; with great strength, making a great noise, and threatening with ruin and destruction, as before.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice - The word here rendered “floods,” means properly rivers, and then it may be applied to any waters. The word voice here refers to the noise of raging waters when they are agitated by the winds, or when they dash on the shore. See the notes at Psalms 42:7.

The floods lift up their waves - As if they would sweep everything away. The allusion here is to some calamity or danger which might, in its strength and violence, be compared with the wild and raging waves of the ocean. Or if it refers literally to the ocean in a storm, then the psalm may have been the reflections of the author as he stood on the shore of the sea, and saw the waves beat and dash against the shore. To one thus looking upon the billows as they roll in toward the shore, it seems as if they were angry; as if they intended to sweep everything away; as if the rocks of the shore could not resist them. Yet they have their bounds. They spend their strength; they break, and retire as if to recover their force, and then they renew their attack with the same result. But their power is limited. The rocky shore is unmoved. The earth abides. God is over all. His throne is unshaken. No violence of the elements can affect that; and, under his dominion, all is secure.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 93:3. The floods have lifted up — Multitudes of people have confederated against thy people; and troop succeeds troop as the waves of the sea succeed each other.


 
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