KJV King James Version
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
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Psalm 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
WEB World English Bible
The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
ASV American Standard Version
The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.
Surrounding context — Psalm 93
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.
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Psalm 96:11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.Psalm 69:1-2To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.Psalm 98:7-8Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.Jeremiah 46:7-8Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?Psalm 18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.Isaiah 55:12For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.Isaiah 17:12-13Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, [that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!Psalm 124:3-5Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:Revelation 17:15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.Revelation 12:15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.Psalm 69:14-16Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.Jonah 2:3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.Psalm 2:1-3Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?Psalm 107:25-26For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.Acts 4:25-27Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
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