Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For the breakers of death surrounded me The torrents of Beilal will terrify me;
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.
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
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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 Praising, I will call Jehovah and shall be saved from mine enemies. 5 For the breakers of death surrounded me The torrents of Beilal will terrify me; 6 The pangs of hades surrounded me; The snares of death anticipated me;
Names
Cross References
Psalm 69:14-15
Deliver me from the mire and I shall not sink: I shall be delivered from those hating me, and from the depths of waters.
Jonah 2:3
And thou wilt cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas; and the river will surround me: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.
Psalm 18:4
The pains of death surrounded me, and the torrents of Belial made me afraid.
Psalm 93:3-4
The rivers lifted up, O Jehovah, the rivers lifted up their voice, the rivers shall lift up their roarings.
Isaiah 59:19
And from the west they shall fear the name of Jehovah, and from the rising of the sun, his glory. When the adversary shall come in as a river, the spirit of Jehovah was lifted up against him.
Jeremiah 46:7-8
Who this as a river he shall come up, as the rivers his waters shall be moved?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.
Revelation 12:15-16
And the serpent cast after the woman water out of his mouth as a river, that he might make her torn away by a river.
Revelation 17:1
And one of the seven angels having the seven vials, came and spake with me, saying to me, Come; I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot sitting upon 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.