New Revised Standard Version
Therefore let all who are faithful offer prayer to you; at a time of distress, the rush of mighty waters shall not reach them.

Contemporary English Version
We worship you, Lord, and we should always pray whenever we find out that we have sinned. Then we won't be swept away by a raging flood.

New American Bible
Therefore every loyal person should pray to you in time of distress. Though flood waters threaten, they will never reach him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

For this

Psalm 34:2-5 In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice. . . .

Psalm 40:3 And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.

Psalm 51:12,13 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God.

1 Timothy 1:16 But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

godly

Psalm 4:3 Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.

2 Corinthians 7:9,10 Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing. . . .

Titus 2:12 Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world,

pray

Proverbs 1:28 Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Isaiah 49:8 Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, and given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed:

Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

Luke 19:42-44 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. . . .

John 7:34 You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

2 Corinthians 6:2 For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: behold, now is the day of salvation.

a time [heb] a time of finding

Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Psalm 69:1,2,13-15 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. . . .

Psalm 124:4,5 Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up. . . .

Genesis 7:17-22 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth. . . .

Isaiah 43:2 When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:

Matthew 7:24-27 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, . . .

Revelation 12:15,16 And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. . . .