Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
When the waves of death encircled me, the floods of ungodly men 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 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 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised. And I shall be saved from my enemies. 5 When the waves of death encircled me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 6 The sorrows of hell hemmed me in. The snares of death went in front of me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 69:14-15
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Jonah 2:3
For You cast me into the depths of the seas, and the current surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.
Psalm 18:4
The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Psalm 93:3-4
The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods have lifted up their voices; the floods lift up their waves.
Isaiah 59:19
So they shall fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of Jehovah shall make him flee.
Jeremiah 46:7-8
Who is this rising up like the Nile, whose waters are moved like the rivers?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.
Revelation 12:15-16
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water like a flood after the woman, so that he might cause her to be carried away by the river.
Revelation 17:1
And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came and talked with me, saying to me, Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot sitting on many waters,
Revelation 17:15
And he says to me, The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues,