Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters. 15 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. 16 Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity.

Cross References

Numbers 16:33-34

So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

Psalm 16:10

For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

Psalm 88:4-6

I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

Isaiah 43:1-2

But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.

Jonah 2:2-7

In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Acts 2:24

But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

Acts 2:31

He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

Revelation 12:15-16

And the snake sent out of his mouth after the woman a river of water, so that she might be taken away by the stream.

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