Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Because deadly breakers engulfed me, while torrents of abuse from the ungodly overwhelmed 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.
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 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 As I am praising him, I will call out to the LORD, and I will be saved from my enemies. 5 Because deadly breakers engulfed me, while torrents of abuse from the ungodly overwhelmed me. 6 Binding ropes from Sheol entangled me while lethal snares hindered me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 69:14-15
Rescue me from the mud and do not let me sink. Rescue me from those who hate me, and from the deep waters.
Jonah 2:3
You cast me into the deep into the heart of the sea. Flood waters engulfed me. All your breakers and your waves swirled over me.
Psalm 18:4
The cords of death entangled me; the rivers of Belial made me afraid.
Psalm 93:3-4
The rivers have flooded, LORD; the rivers have spoken aloud, the rivers have lifted up their crushing waves.
Isaiah 59:19
So people will fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glories from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a pent-up stream that the breath of the LORD drives along.
Jeremiah 46:7-8
Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When people say, "There is peace and security," destruction will strike them as suddenly as labor pains come to a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape.
Revelation 12:15-16
From its mouth the serpent spewed water like a river behind the woman in order to sweep her away with the flood.
Revelation 17:1
Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and told me, "Come, I will show you how the notorious prostitute who sits on many waters will be judged.
Revelation 17:15
The angel also told me, "The bodies of water you saw, on which the prostitute is sitting, are nations, multitudes, nations, and languages.