Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
Holman Bible
the torrents of destruction terrified me.
International Standard Version
Because deadly breakers engulfed me, while torrents of abuse from the ungodly overwhelmed me.
A Conservative Version
For the waves of death encompassed me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
American Standard Version
For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:
Amplified
“For the waves of death encompassed me;
The torrents of
Bible in Basic English
For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;
Julia Smith Translation
For the breakers of death surrounded me The torrents of Beilal will terrify me;
King James 2000
When the waves of death surrounded me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the breaker waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.
Modern King James verseion
When the waves of death encircled me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the waves of death have closed me about, and the floods of Belial have feared me.
NET Bible
The waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.
New Heart English Bible
For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
The Emphasized Bible
When the breakers of death had encompassed me, - the torrents of perdition, made me afraid, -
Webster
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly-men made me afraid;
World English Bible
For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
Youngs Literal Translation
When the breakers of death compassed me, The streams of the worthless terrify me,
Interlinear
References
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 22:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Victory Song Of David
4 I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised; So shall I be saved from mine enemies. 5 For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid. 6 The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;
Names
Cross References
Psalm 69:14-15
Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.
Jonah 2:3
For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
Psalm 18:4
The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.
Psalm 93:3-4
The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.
Isaiah 59:19
And they shall fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and from the rising of the sun, his glory. When the adversary shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of Jehovah will lift up a banner against him.
Jeremiah 46:7-8
Who is this that riseth up as the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Revelation 12:15-16
And the serpent cast out of his mouth behind the woman water as a river, that he might make her be as one carried away by a river.
Revelation 17:1
And one of the seven angels, which had the seven bowls, came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the sentence of the great harlot who sits upon the many waters;
Revelation 17:15
And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.