New King James Version
Psalms 93:3
3The floods have lifted up, O Lord, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.
Psalms 93:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
- New International Version (NIV)The seas have lifted up, Lord, the seas have lifted up their voice; the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The floods have risen up, O Lord. The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves.
Context of Psalms 93:3
1The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty; The Lord is clothed, He has girded Himself with strength. Surely the world is established, so that it cannot be moved. 2Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O Lord, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves. 4The Lord on high is mightier Than the noise of many waters, Than the mighty waves of the sea. 5Your testimonies are very sure; Holiness adorns Your house, O Lord, forever.
Read all of Psalms 93Psalms 93:3 word by word
נָשְׂא֤וּ נְהָר֨וֹת׀ יְֽהוָ֗ה נָשְׂא֣וּ נְהָר֣וֹת קוֹלָ֑ם יִשְׂא֖וּ נְהָר֣וֹת דָּכְיָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 93:3
- Psalms 18:4The pangs of death surrounded me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Psalms 69:1Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
- Isaiah 17:12Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas, And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
- Jeremiah 46:7“Who is this coming up like a flood, Whose waters move like the rivers?
- Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
- Revelation 12:15So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
- Revelation 17:15Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.
- Psalms 96:11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;
- Psalms 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands; Let the hills be joyful together before the Lord,
- Isaiah 55:12“For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
- Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing?
- Psalms 107:25For He commands and raises the stormy wind, Which lifts up the waves of the sea.
- Psalms 125:3For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest On the land allotted to the righteous, Lest the righteous reach out their hands to iniquity.
- Acts 4:25who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: ‘Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?
Commentaries on Psalms 93:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3The 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The 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 Psalm 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4God’s victory over natural chaos gives the psalmist confidence that the Lord will also defeat his present enemies (compare Jeremiah 46:8; 47:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-42-4. His underived power exceeds the most sublime exhibitions of the most powerful objects in nature (Psa 89:9).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 93
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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