Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
When the breakers of death had encompassed me, - the torrents of perdition, 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;
Darby Translation
For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.
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.
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
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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 As one worthy to be praised, called I on Yahweh, - And, from my foes, was I saved. 5 When the breakers of death had encompassed me, - the torrents of perdition, made me afraid, - 6 the meshes of hades, had surrounded me, - the snares of death had confronted me,
Names
Cross References
Psalm 69:14-15
Rescue me out of the mire, lest I sink, Let me be rescued, From my haters, and, From abysses of waters:
Jonah 2:3
For thou hast cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and, a flood, enveloped me, - All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, passed.
Psalm 18:4
The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid;
Psalm 93:3-4
The floods have lifted up, O Yahweh, The floods have lifted up - their voice, The floods have lifted up - their dashing waves.
Isaiah 59:19
That they may revere - From the West the name of Yahweh, And from the Rising of the Sun his glory, For he will come in like a rushing stream, the breath of Yahweh, driving it on;
Jeremiah 46:7-8
Who is it that is like the Nile when it riseth, Like rivers when his waters are tossed?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
As soon as they begin to say - Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction, - just as the birth-throe unto her that is with child, - and in nowise shall they escape.
Revelation 12:15-16
And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
Revelation 17:1
And one of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came, and spake with me, saying - Hither! I will point out to thee the judgment of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters,
Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me - The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are, peoples and multitudes, and nations and tongues.