Psalm 93:3 “The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice…”

Psalm 93:3

The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The floods have lifted up, LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The floodes haue lifted vp, O Lord: the floodes haue lifted vp their voyce: the floods lift vp their waues.

Darby Translation

The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.

Young's Literal Translation

Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.

Bible in Basic English

The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

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Cross references

“The floods”

Psalm 18:4 Revelation 17:15 Psalm 69:14–16 Jonah 2:3 Revelation 12:15 Psalm 69:1

Psalm 18:4 · BSB

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

Revelation 17:15 · BSB

Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

Psalm 69:14–16 · BSB

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

Jonah 2:3 · BSB

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

Revelation 12:15 · BSB

Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.

Psalm 69:1 · BSB

Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

“lifted”

Psalm 96:11 Isaiah 55:12 Psalm 98:8

Psalm 96:11 · BSB

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.

Isaiah 55:12 · BSB

You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Psalm 98:8 · BSB

Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy

“the floods lift”

Psalm 124:3–5 Psalm 2:1–3 Acts 4:25–27 Psalm 107:25 Psalm 107:26

Psalm 124:3–5 · BSB

when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,

Psalm 2:1–3 · BSB

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Acts 4:25–27 · BSB

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 107:25 · BSB

For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.

Psalm 107:26 · BSB

They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.

Also

Psalm 98:7–8

Psalm 98:7–8 · BSB

Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.

4Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

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