Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

New American Standard Bible

May the flood of water not overflow me
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

King James Version

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Holman Bible

Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me
or the deep swallow me up;
don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.

International Standard Version

Let neither the floodwaters overwhelm me nor let the deep swallow me up, nor the mouth of the well close over me.

A Conservative Version

Let not the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep shallow me up. And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

Amplified


Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me,
Nor the deep waters swallow me up,
Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.

Bible in Basic English

Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

Darby Translation

Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

Julia Smith Translation

The streams of water shall not overflow me, and the depth shall not swallow me down, and the well shall not close upon me her mouth.

King James 2000

Let not the floodwater overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or [the] deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.

Modern King James verseion

Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

NET Bible

Don't let the current overpower me! Don't let the deep swallow me up! Don't let the pit devour me!

New Heart English Bible

Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Do not let the pit shut its mouth on me.

The Emphasized Bible

Let not a flood of waters overflow me, And let not the depth swallow me up, Neither let the well close, over me, her mouth.

Webster

Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

World English Bible

Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Youngs Literal Translation

Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut her mouth upon me.

References

American

Easton

Watsons

Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. 16 Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

Cross References

Numbers 16:33-34

So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Psalm 16:10

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

Psalm 88:4-6

I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,

Psalm 124:4-5

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;

Isaiah 43:1-2

But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.

Jonah 2:2-7

And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice.

Matthew 12:40

for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Acts 2:24

whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

Acts 2:31

he foreseeing this'spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

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.

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