Psalm 107:23 Some went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Some went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters.

English Standard Version
Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters;

New American Standard Bible
Those who go down to the sea in ships, Who do business on great waters;

King James Bible
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Others went to sea in ships, conducting trade on the vast waters.

International Standard Version
Those who go down to the sea in ships, who work in the great waters,

American Standard Version
They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters;

Douay-Rheims Bible
They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters:

Darby Bible Translation
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,

Young's Literal Translation
Those going down to the sea in ships, Doing business in many waters,

Cross References

Psalm 29:3
The voice of the LORD is on the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is on many waters.

Psalm 65:5
By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off on the sea:

Psalm 104:26
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom you have made to play therein.

Psalm 107:24
These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.

Isaiah 42:10
Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

Jonah 1:4
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

107:23-32 Let those who go to sea, consider and adore the Lord. Mariners have their business upon the tempestuous ocean, and there witness deliverances of which others cannot form an idea. How seasonable it is at such a time to pray! This may remind us of the terrors and distress of conscience many experience, and of those deep scenes of trouble which many pass through, in their Christian course. Yet, in answer to their cries, the Lord turns their storm into a calm, and causes their trials to end in gladness.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

23-32. Here are set forth the perils of seafaring, futility of man's, and efficiency of God's, help.

go … sea—alluding to the elevation of the land at the coast.