Psalms 107:29

The NET Bible®

He calmed the storm, and the waves grew silent.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He stilled the storm to a whisper,and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Hebrew Names Version
He makes the storm a calm, So that its waves are still.

King James Version
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

English Standard Version
He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

New Century Version
He stilled the storm and calmed the waves.

Amplified Bible
He hushed the storm to a gentle whisper, So that the waves of the sea were still.

New American Standard Bible
He caused the storm to be still, So that the waves of the sea were hushed.

World English Bible
He makes the storm a calm, So that its waves are still.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He turneth the storme to calme, so that the waues thereof are still.

Legacy Standard Bible
He caused the storm to stand still,So that its waves were hushed.

Berean Standard Bible
He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Contemporary English Version
He made the storm stop and the sea be quiet.

Complete Jewish Bible
He silenced the storm and stilled its waves,

Darby Translation
He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:

Easy-to-Read Version
He stopped the storm and calmed the waves.

George Lamsa Translation
He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Good News Translation
He calmed the raging storm, and the waves became quiet.

Lexham English Bible
He made the storm be still and their waves became calm.

Literal Translation
He settles the storm to a whisper, so that its waves are still;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He maketh the storme to ceasse, so that the wawes are still.

American Standard Version
He maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still.

Bible in Basic English
He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He made the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof were still.

King James Version (1611)
He maketh the storme a calme: so that the waues thereof are still.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he maketh the storme to ceasse: so that the waues therof are still.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he commands the storm, and it is calmed into a gentle breeze, and its waves are still.

English Revised Version
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he ordeynede the tempest therof in to a soft wynde; and the wawis therof weren stille.

Update Bible Version
He makes the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still.

Webster's Bible Translation
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves [of the sea] are still.

New King James Version
He calms the storm, So that its waves are still.

New Living Translation
He calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves.

New Life Bible
He stopped the storm, and the waves of the sea became quiet.

New Revised Standard
he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He calmeth the storm to a whisper, and silent are their rolling waves:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(106-29) And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.

Revised Standard Version
he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Young's Literal Translation
He establisheth a whirlwind to a calm, And hushed are their billows.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He caused the storm to be still, So that the waves of the sea were hushed.

Contextual Overview

²³ Some traveled on the sea in ships, and carried cargo over the vast waters. ²⁴ They witnessed the acts of the Lord , his amazing feats on the deep water. ²⁵ He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea. ²⁶ They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors' strength left them because the danger was so great. ²⁷ They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective. ²⁸ They cried out to the Lord in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. ²⁹ He calmed the storm, and the waves grew silent. ³⁰ The sailors rejoiced because the waves grew quiet, and he led them to the harbor they desired. ³¹ Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people! ³² Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people! Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 65:7, Psalms 89:9, Jonah 1:15, Matthew 8:26, Mark 4:39-41, Luke 8:23-25

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 1:6 - The wind Jonah 1:6 - arise Matthew 14:32 - come John 3:8 - wind

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He maketh the storm a calm,.... As Christ did by a word speaking, Mark 4:39.

So that the waves thereof are still; and roar and toss no more, but subside; and the sea becomes smooth and quiet, its raging ceases: the angry sea, as Horace p calls it, becomes calm and peaceable; see

Psalms 89:9.

p "Nec horret iratum mare", Horat. Epod. Ode 2. v. 6. "Nec maris ira manet", Ovid. Metamorph. l. 12. Fab. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He maketh the storm a calm - God does this, and God only can do it. The fact, therefore, that Jesus did it Matthew 8:26, proves that he was divine. There can be no more striking proof of divine power than the ability to calm the raging waves of the ocean by a word. This is literally, “He places the tempest to silence.”

So that the waves thereof are still - Are lulled. The ocean ceases to be agitated, and the surface becomes smooth. Nothing is more still than the ocean in a calm. Not a breath of air seems to stir; not a ripple agitates the surface of the sea; the sails of the vessel hang loose, and even the vessel seems to be perfectly at rest: “As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” So God can calm down the tempest of the soul. He can make the mind which was heaving and tossed, like the ocean, with anguish on account of guilt, and which trembled in view of the coming judgment, as calm as the ocean is when in its state of perfect repose. God can do “this,” and none “but” God can do it; and as Jesus thus stills the agitation of the guilty soul, as he did the waves of the sea, “this” proves also that he is divine.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 107:29. He maketh the storm a calm — He causes the storm to stand dumb, and hushes the waves. See the original, where sense and sound emphatically meet: -

גליהם ויחשו לדממה סארה יקם galleyhem vaiyecheshu lidemamah searah yakem

He shall cause the whirlwind to stand dumb, and he shall hush their billows.