Psalms 65:7
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Psalms 65:7 in other translations
| BSB | You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations. |
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| WEB | You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations. |
| ASV | Who stilleth the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples. |
| YLT | Restraining the noise of seas, the noise of their billows, And the multitude of the peoples. |
| DARBY | Who stilleth the raging of the seas, the raging of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples. |
| BBE | Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves. |
| Webster | Who stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people. |
What does Psalms 65:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 65:6-13
6-13. God's great power and goodness are the grounds of this confidence. These are illustrated in His control of the mightiest agencies of nature and nations affecting men with awe and dread (Psa 26:7; 98:1, &c.), and in His fertilizing showers, causing the earth to produce abundantly for man and beast.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 65:6-13
That Almighty strength which sets fast the mountains, upholds the believer. That word which stills the stormy ocean, and speaks it into a calm, can silence our enemies. How contrary soever light and darkness are to each other, it is hard to say which is most welcome. Does the watchman wait for the morning? so does the labourer earnestly desire the shades of evening. Some understand it of the morning and evening…
Psalms 65:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 65:7
- Psalms 89:9
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
- Psalms 93:3-4
The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
- Isaiah 17:12-13
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
- Psalms 107:29
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
- John 18:6
As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
- Matthew 8:26-27
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
- Psalms 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
- Job 38:8-11
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
- Psalms 2:1-4
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
- Psalms 74:23
Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
- Jonah 1:15
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
- Psalms 104:6-9
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
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Context
- Psalms 65:6
Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
- Psalms 65:7
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
- Psalms 65:8
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
Psalms 65:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El que amansa el estruendo de los mares, el estruendo de sus ondas, y el alboroto de las gentes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Toi qui as établi les montagnes par ta force, qui es ceint de puissance, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Der da stillt das Brausen der Meere, das Brausen ihrer Wellen und das Getümmel der Völkerschaften. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Qui dominatur in virtute sua in æternum; oculi ejus super gentes respiciunt: qui exasperant non exaltentur in semetipsis. |