Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

The mountains see You and shudder;
a downpour of water sweeps by.
The deep roars with its voice
and lifts its waves high.

New American Standard Bible

The mountains saw You and quaked;
The downpour of waters swept by.
The deep uttered forth its voice,
It lifted high its hands.

King James Version

The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

International Standard Version

When the mountains looked upon you, they trembled; the overflowing water passed by, the ocean shouted, and its waves surged upward.

A Conservative Version

The mountains saw thee, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep uttered its voice, and lifted up its hands on high.

American Standard Version

The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.

Amplified


The mountains saw You and [they] trembled and writhed [as if in pain];
The downpour of waters swept by [as a deluge].
The deep uttered its voice and raged,
It lifted its hands high.

Bible in Basic English

The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

Darby Translation

The mountains saw thee, they were in travail: Torrents of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, Lifted up its hands on high.

Julia Smith Translation

They saw thee, the mountains shall tremble: the pouring of the waters passed by: the deep gave his voice, he lifted up his hands on high.

King James 2000

The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered its voice, and lifted up its hands on high.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[When the] mountains saw you they writhed; a torrent of waters swept by; the deep gave its voice; it raised its hands on high.

Modern King James verseion

They saw You; mountains trembled. The storm of water passed over; the deep uttered its voice and lifted up its hands on high.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The mountains saw thee, and they tembled, the water stream went away: the deep made a noise at the lifting up of thine hand.

NET Bible

When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

New Heart English Bible

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

The Emphasized Bible

The mountains, have seen thee - they tremble, a downpour of waters, hath passed along, - the roaring deep, hath given forth, his voice, on high - his hand, hath he uplifted.

Webster

The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

World English Bible

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

Youngs Literal Translation

Seen thee -- pained are mountains, An inundation of waters hath passed over, Given forth hath the deep its voice, High its hands it hath lifted up.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The mountains
הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

saw
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

חיל חוּל 
Chuwl 
Usage: 57

זרם 
Zerem 
Usage: 9

of the water
מים 
Mayim 
Usage: 581

passed by
עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

the deep
תּהם תּהום 
T@howm 
Usage: 36

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

and lifted up
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

References

Fausets

Context Readings

The Prayer Of Habakkuk

9 You took the sheath from Your bow;
the arrows are ready to be used with an oath.Selah
You split the earth with rivers.
10 The mountains see You and shudder;
a downpour of water sweeps by.
The deep roars with its voice
and lifts its waves high.
11 Sun and moon stand still in their lofty residence,
at the flash of Your flying arrows,
at the brightness of Your shining spear.


Cross References

Psalm 93:3

The floods have lifted up, Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their pounding waves.

Psalm 98:7-8

Let the sea and all that fills it,
the world and those who live in it, resound.

Exodus 14:22-28

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

Exodus 19:16-18

On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a loud trumpet sound, so that all the people in the camp shuddered.

Joshua 3:15-16

Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan, their feet touched the water at its edge

Joshua 4:18

When the priests carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant came up from the middle of the Jordan, and their feet stepped out on solid ground, the waters of the Jordan resumed their course, flowing over all the banks as before.

Joshua 4:23-24

For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.

Judges 5:4-5

Lord, when You came from Seir,
when You marched from the fields of Edom,
the earth trembled,
the heavens poured rain,
and the clouds poured water.

Nehemiah 9:11

You divided the sea before them,
and they crossed through it on dry ground.
You hurled their pursuers into the depths
like a stone into churning waters.

Psalm 18:15

The depths of the sea became visible,
the foundations of the world were exposed,
at Your rebuke, Lord,
at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

Psalm 65:13

The pastures are clothed with flocks
and the valleys covered with grain.
They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.

Psalm 66:6

He turned the sea into dry land,
and they crossed the river on foot.
There we rejoiced in Him.

Psalm 68:7-8

God, when You went out before Your people,
when You marched through the desert,Selah

Psalm 74:13-15

You divided the sea with Your strength;
You smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the waters;

Psalm 77:16-19

The waters saw You, God.
The waters saw You; they trembled.
Even the depths shook.

Psalm 96:11-13

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the sea and all that fills it resound.

Psalm 97:4-5

His lightning lights up the world;
the earth sees and trembles.

Psalm 114:3-8

The sea looked and fled;
the Jordan turned back.

Psalm 136:13-15

He divided the Red Sea
        His love is eternal.

Isaiah 11:15-16

The Lord will divide the Gulf of Suez.
He will wave His hand over the Euphrates
with His mighty wind
and will split it into seven streams,
letting people walk through on foot.

Isaiah 43:20

The animals of the field will honor Me,
jackals and ostriches,
because I provide water in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert,
to give drink to My chosen people.

Isaiah 55:12

You will indeed go out with joy
and be peacefully guided;
the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Isaiah 63:11-13

Then He remembered the days of the past,
the days of Moses and his people.
Where is He who brought them out of the sea
with the shepherds of His flock?
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit among the flock?

Isaiah 64:1-2

If only You would tear the heavens open
and come down,
so that mountains would quake at Your presence

Jeremiah 4:24

I looked at the mountains,
and they were quaking;
all the hills shook.

Micah 1:4

The mountains will melt beneath Him,
and the valleys will split apart,
like wax near a fire,
like water cascading down a mountainside.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake before Him,
and the hills melt;
the earth trembles at His presence—
the world and all who live in it.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stands and shakes the earth;
He looks and startles the nations.
The age-old mountains break apart;
the ancient hills sink down.
His pathways are ancient.

Matthew 27:51

Suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary was split in two from top to bottom; the earth quaked and the rocks were split.

Hebrews 11:29

By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned.

Revelation 6:14

the sky separated like a scroll being rolled up; and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

Revelation 16:12

The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

Revelation 20:11

Then I saw a great white throne and One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.

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