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Psalm 93:3
The floods have lifted up, LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
1The LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty! The LORD is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
2Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
3The floods have lifted up, LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
4Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty.
5Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, LORD, forever more.
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The repeated rising of the floods makes their force hard to ignore, while the address to YHWH keeps their noise within a prayer.
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Psalm 96:11Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!Both passages let waters sound aloud, though Psalm 96 places the sea’s roar among expressions of joy.
Psalm 69:1–2For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!Rising waters appear in both prayers, with Psalm 69 making the danger personal through its plea for rescue.
Isaiah 17:12–13Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!Both describe the sound and force of waters; Isaiah compares the uproar of peoples and nations to roaring seas.
Psalm 18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.Both use flood language, while Psalm 18 names floods of ungodliness and the fear they caused.
Psalm 98:7–8Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.The waters have a voice in Psalm 93, and Psalm 98 urges the sea and its fullness to roar.
Jeremiah 46:7–8“Who is this who rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?Both passages picture water rising with force, using floods in the psalm and the surging Nile in Jeremiah.
Isaiah 55:12For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields …Both give features of creation human expression: floods lift their voice, while mountains sing and trees clap their hands.
Revelation 17:15He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.Water appears in both passages, but Revelation identifies its waters as peoples and nations; Psalm 93 makes no such identification.
Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.Both portray waters as vocal and active, with floods lifting their voice and the deep roaring and lifting its hands.
Revelation 12:15The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.Both depict forceful waters, though Revelation describes a stream sent by the serpent to carry the woman away.
Jonah 2:3For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.Both address God amid descriptions of floods and waves; Jonah describes those waters surrounding and passing over him.
Acts 4:25–27who by the mouth of your servant David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?Both use language of commotion, though Psalm 93 names floods and Acts names nations and peoples.
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The floods are still rising when YHWH is addressed. Your prayer need not wait for quiet; the surrounding verses declare that his might exceeds the waters.
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