Psalms 107:23 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 107:23

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

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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ASV

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

WEB

Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.

YLT

Those going down to the sea in ships, Doing business in many waters,

DBT

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

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

11 verses on the floor

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.
Matthew 8:24
And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
Psalms 104:26
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Mark 4:37
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
Psalms 48:7
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

It especially appears in storms at sea, which are much more terrible than at land. How dangerous and dreadful a tempest at sea is. Then wonders begin to appear in the deep, when God commands and raises the strong wind, which fulfils his word, Ps. cxlviii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

These are put for all similar perils, in which those that cry unto God have ever found him a very present help. He specifies the varieties and vicissitudes of events concerning nations and families, in all which God's hand is to be eyed by his own people, with joyful acknowledgments of his goodness,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 107:23PSA 48:7 JER 18:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 107:23ISA 42:10 PSA 33:3
PSA 107:23ISA 42:10 PSA 40:3
PSA 107:23ISA 42:10 ISA 42:4
PSA 107:23ISA 42:10 ROM 15:9-11
PSA 107:23PSA 48:7 EZE 27:25-26
PSA 107:23EZE 27:26 PSA 48:7
PSA 107:23PSA 48:7 1KI 22:48

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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