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Psalm 93:4

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty.

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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Notice

The breakers are called mighty before YHWH is called mighty, giving the sea its full force while declaring God's power above it.

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What difference do you notice between calling the breakers mighty and calling YHWH mighty?

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Revelation 1:15His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.Both passages use the sound of many waters: the psalm declares the LORD's greater might, while Revelation uses it to describe a voice.
Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.Both connect water with the LORD's power: mighty seas remain beneath him, and a king's heart is like watercourses in his hand.
Psalm 65:7You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.Both name the sea's force beneath God's power; Psalm 65 describes him stilling the seas whose might Psalm 93 acknowledges.
John 6:19When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.The sea displays the LORD's greater might in the psalm; in John, it is the surface on which Jesus walks toward the boat.
Psalm 89:9You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.Both describe God's supremacy over the sea, with Psalm 89 naming his rule and his calming of rising waves.
Job 38:11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?The sea's mighty breakers in Psalm 93 and its proud waves in Job both meet a power greater than their own.
Jeremiah 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says the LORD; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t …Both describe forceful waters beneath the LORD's authority; Jeremiah specifies that their roaring cannot overcome the boundary he sets.
Psalm 114:3–5The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.Both portray the sea as subject to greater power: Psalm 93 declares the LORD's might, while Psalm 114 depicts the sea fleeing.
Mark 4:37–39A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.Both portray the force of waves; Mark's opening storm scene shows that force filling a boat, while Psalm 93 declares the LORD greater.
Mark 6:48Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have …Psalm 93 declares the LORD stronger than the sea; Mark describes Jesus walking on it toward disciples struggling to row.
Revelation 14:2I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on …Both use the sound of many waters to convey magnitude, though Revelation describes a sound from heaven rather than the sea itself.
Psalm 56:2My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.The connection is slight: Psalm 93 names many waters, while Psalm 56 names many enemies fighting against the speaker.
Where this verse fits

Fear for the future. anxiety or panic. praise and worship.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 93:4 aloud at bedtime, then name one fear

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Encouragement

The sea is still loud in this verse. You are given no timetable for its quieting. Even at their mightiest, the breakers remain beneath YHWH’s greater power.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).