Psalm 65:7
New International Version
who stilled the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

New Living Translation
You quieted the raging oceans with their pounding waves and silenced the shouting of the nations.

English Standard Version
who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples,

Berean Standard Bible
You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

King James Bible
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

New King James Version
You who still the noise of the seas, The noise of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.

New American Standard Bible
Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the turmoil of the nations.

NASB 1995
Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.

NASB 1977
Who dost still the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.

Legacy Standard Bible
Who stills the rumbling of the seas, The rumbling of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.

Amplified Bible
Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples,

Christian Standard Bible
You silence the roar of the seas, the roar of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You silence the roar of the seas, the roar of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

American Standard Version
Who stilleth the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He stops the storms of the seas and the sound of their waves; the nations shall be troubled.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
who troublest the depth of the sea, the sounds of its waves.

Contemporary English Version
You silence the roaring waves and the noisy shouts of the nations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,

English Revised Version
Which stilleth the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
the one who calms the roar of the seas, their crashing waves, and the uproar of the nations.

Good News Translation
You calm the roar of the seas and the noise of the waves; you calm the uproar of the peoples.

International Standard Version
He calmed the roar of seas, the roaring of the waves, and the turmoil of the peoples.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who stillest the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples;

Literal Standard Version
Restraining the noise of seas, the noise of their billows, | And the multitude of the peoples.

Majority Standard Bible
You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

New American Bible
You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples.

NET Bible
You calm the raging seas and their roaring waves, as well as the commotion made by the nations.

New Revised Standard Version
You silence the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples.

New Heart English Bible
who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

World English Bible
You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

Young's Literal Translation
Restraining the noise of seas, the noise of their billows, And the multitude of the peoples.

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Context
Praise Awaits You, O God, in Zion
6You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might. 7You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations. 8Those who live far away fear Your wonders; You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy.…

Cross References
Matthew 8:26
"You of little faith," Jesus replied, "why are you so afraid?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.

Mark 4:39
Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. "Silence!" He commanded. "Be still!" And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.

Psalm 2:1
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 74:23
Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

Psalm 89:9
You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.

Psalm 93:3
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

Psalm 93:4
Above the roar of many waters--the mighty breakers of the sea--the LORD on high is majestic.


Treasury of Scripture

Which stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

Which

Psalm 89:9
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Psalm 107:29
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Jonah 1:4,15
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…

noise

Psalm 93:3,4
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves…

Psalm 104:6-9
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains…

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? …

tumult

Psalm 2:1-4
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? …

Psalm 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

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! …

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Psalm 65
1. David praises God for his grace
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(7) Tumult.--Here we see the literal passing into the figurative. From the raging seas the poet's thought goes to the anarchies arising from the wild passions of men, for which in all literature the ocean has furnished metaphors. (Comp. Isaiah 17:12.) In a well-known passage, the Latin poet Virgil reverses the simile, likening the sudden calm which succeeds the storm that wrecked 'neas to the effect produced by a leader of men in a seditious city. (Virgil, 'n. i. 148.)

Verse 7. - Which stllleth the noise of the seas. The power of God, as set forth in his control of the sea, is a favourite topic with the sacred writers (see Job 38:8; Proverbs 8:29; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 51:10; Jeremiah 5:22, etc.). Being so entirely beyond his own control, it seems to man one of the greatest of marvels that there should be any force capable of subduing and taming it, Hence the admiration excited by our Lord's miracle (Matthew 8:26, 27). The noise of their waves (comp. Isaiah 17:12). And the tumult of the people. This clause may seem a little out of place in a passage which treats of God's power over nature. But, after all, humanity is a constituent part of nature.

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Hebrew
You stilled
מַשְׁבִּ֤יחַ ׀ (maš·bî·aḥ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7623: To address in a, loud tone, loud, to pacify

the roaring
שְׁא֣וֹן (šə·’ō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7588: A roar (of waters, etcetera), din, crash, uproar

of the seas,
יַ֭מִּים (yam·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

the pounding
שְׁא֥וֹן (šə·’ō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7588: A roar (of waters, etcetera), din, crash, uproar

of their waves,
גַּלֵּיהֶ֗ם (gal·lê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1530: Something rolled, a heap of stone, dung, a spring of water

and the tumult
וַהֲמ֥וֹן (wa·hă·mō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1995: A noise, tumult, crowd, disquietude, wealth

of the nations.
לְאֻמִּֽים׃ (lə·’um·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3816: A community


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