'Waves' in the Bible

“For the waves of death encompassed me;The torrents of destruction overwhelmed and terrified me.

Who alone stretches out the heavensAnd tramples down the waves of the sea;

And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;And here your proud waves shall stop’?

For my iniquities have gone over my head [like the waves of a flood];As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls;All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

Who stills the roaring of the seas,The roaring of their waves,And the tumult of the peoples,

Your wrath has rested heavily upon me,And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

You rule the swelling of the sea;When its waves rise, You still them.

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

More than the sounds of many waters,More than the mighty breakers of the sea,The Lord on high is mighty.

For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind,Which lifted up the waves of the sea.

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

“Oh, that you had paid attention to My commandments!Then your peace and prosperity would have been like a [flowing] river,And your righteousness [the holiness and purity of the nation] like the [abundant] waves of the sea.

For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord of hosts is His name.

‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].[Is not such a God to be feared?]

Thus says the Lord,Who gives the sun for light by dayAnd the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for light by night,Who stirs up the sea’s roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar;The Lord of hosts is His name:

“The sea has come up over Babylon;She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

For the Lord is going to destroy Babylon and make her a ruin,And He will still her great voice [that hums with city life].And the waves [of her conquerors] roar like great waters,The noise of their voices is raised up [like the marching of an army].

therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea makes its waves crest.

“The pasture lands and the countryside will shakeAt the [piercing] sound of the [hopeless, wailing] cry of your pilots.

“For You cast me into the deep,Into the [deep] heart of the seas,And the currents surrounded and engulfed me;All Your breakers and billowing waves passed over me.

“And they will pass through the sea of distress and anxiety [with the Lord leading His people, as at the Red Sea]And He will strike the waves in the sea,So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up;And the pride of Assyria will be brought downAnd the scepter [of the taskmasters] of Egypt will pass away.

And suddenly a violent storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.

But the boat [by this time] was already a long distance from land, tossed and battered by the waves; for the wind was against them.

And a fierce windstorm began to blow, and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already being swamped.

They came to Jesus and woke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are about to die!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging, violent waves, and they ceased, and it became calm [a perfect peacefulness].

But striking a reef with waves breaking in on either side, they ran the ship aground. The prow (forward point) stuck fast and remained immovable, while the stern began to break up under the [violent] force of the waves.

wild waves of the sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of deep darkness has been reserved forever.

Then I heard something like the shout of a vast multitude, and like the boom of many pounding waves, and like the roar of mighty peals of thunder, saying,“Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, [the Omnipotent, the Ruler of all] reigns.