Psalm 93:3
New International Version
The seas have lifted up, LORD, the seas have lifted up their voice; the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.

New Living Translation
The floods have risen up, O LORD. The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves.

English Standard Version
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.

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

King James Bible
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their 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.

New American Standard Bible
The floods have lifted up, LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice, The floods lift up their pounding waves.

NASB 1995
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice, The floods lift up their pounding waves.

NASB 1977
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their pounding waves.

Legacy Standard Bible
The rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh, The rivers have lifted up their voice, The rivers lift up their pounding waves.

Amplified Bible
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their pounding waves.

Christian Standard Bible
The floods have lifted up, LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their pounding waves.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The floods have lifted up, 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The rivers are risen, LORD JEHOVAH, the rivers have raised their voice; the rivers are risen in purity.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices,

Contemporary English Version
The ocean is roaring, LORD! The sea is pounding hard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The ocean rises, O LORD. The ocean rises with a roar. The ocean rises with its pounding waves.

Good News Translation
The ocean depths raise their voice, O LORD; they raise their voice and roar.

International Standard Version
The rivers have flooded, LORD; the rivers have spoken aloud, the rivers have lifted up their crushing waves.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their roaring.

Literal Standard Version
Floods have lifted up, O YHWH, | Floods have lifted up their voice, | Floods lift up their breakers.

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

New American Bible
The flood has raised up, LORD; the flood has raised up its roar; the flood has raised its pounding waves.

NET Bible
The waves roar, O LORD, the waves roar, the waves roar and crash.

New Revised Standard Version
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.

New Heart English Bible
The floods have lifted up, LORD, 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.

World English Bible
The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

Young's Literal Translation
Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The LORD Reigns!
2Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity. 3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves. 4Above the roar of many waters—the mighty breakers of the sea—the LORD on high is majestic.…

Cross References
Psalm 46:3
though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah

Psalm 65:7
You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

Psalm 96:11
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.

Psalm 98:7
Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Psalm 98:8
Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy

Psalm 107:25
For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.

Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.


Treasury of Scripture

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

the floods

Psalm 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Psalm 69:1,2,14-16
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul…

Isaiah 17:12,13
Woe 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! …

lifted

Psalm 96:11
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.

Psalm 98:8
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together

Isaiah 55:12
For 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.

the floods lift

Psalm 2:1-3
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? …

Psalm 107:25,26
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof…

Psalm 125:3-5
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity…

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Psalm 93
1. The majesty, stability, power, and holiness of Christ's kingdom.














(3) Waves.--Better, for the parallelism, roaring: but literally, breaking of the waves on the shore.

Floods, here poetically for the sea, as in Psalm 24:2.

Lift up.--The repetition of the verb the third time in a different tense adds to the force. In LXX. and Vulgate this clause is "from the voices of many waters."

Verse 3. - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice. By "the floods" seem to be meant the world powers, God's enemies; perhaps especially Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon. Invading hosts are constantly compared to "floods" or "rivers" in Scripture (see Isaiah 8:7, 8; Isaiah 28:2; Isaiah 17:12, 13; Isaiah 59:19; Jeremiah 46:8, etc.). The floods lift up their waves; or, "their din," "their roaring" (comp. Psalm 65:7, "Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people").

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The floodwaters
נְהָר֨וֹת ׀ (nə·hā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5104: A stream, prosperity

have risen,
נָשְׂא֤וּ (nā·śə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

O LORD,
יְֽהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

the rivers
נְהָר֣וֹת (nə·hā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5104: A stream, prosperity

have raised
נָשְׂא֣וּ (nā·śə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

their voice;
קוֹלָ֑ם (qō·w·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

the seas
נְהָר֣וֹת (nə·hā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5104: A stream, prosperity

lift up
יִשְׂא֖וּ (yiś·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

their pounding waves.
דָּכְיָֽם׃ (dā·ḵə·yām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1796: A pounding (of waves)


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