2 Samuel 22:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

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Referenced Verses

  • Nah 1:4 : 4 He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.
  • Hab 3:8-9 : 8 Was the LORD mad at the rivers? Were you angry with the rivers? Were you enraged at the sea? Such that you would climb into your horse-drawn chariots, your victorious chariots? 9 Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface. 10 When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.
  • Matt 8:26-27 : 26 But he said to them,“Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm. 27 And the men were amazed and said,“What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”
  • Exod 14:21-27 : 21 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided. 22 So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. 23 The Egyptians chased them and followed them into the middle of the sea– all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 In the morning watch the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic. 25 He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving, and the Egyptians said,“Let’s flee from Israel, for the LORD fights for them against Egypt!” 26 The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!” 27 So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
  • Exod 15:8-9 : 8 By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemy said,‘I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.’ 10 But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
  • 2 Sam 22:9 : 9 Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.
  • Job 38:11 : 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
  • Ps 18:15-17 : 15 The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, LORD, by the powerful breath from your nose. 16 He reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water. 17 He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hate me, for they were too strong for me.
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 A well-written song by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?
  • Ps 106:9 : 9 He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.
  • Ps 114:3-7 : 3 The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5 Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River? 6 Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills? 7 Tremble, O earth, before the Lord– before the God of Jacob,

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  • Ps 18:14-16
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    14He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.

    15The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, LORD, by the powerful breath from your nose.

    16He reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water.

  • Exod 15:7-8
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    7In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

    8By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.

  • Job 26:11-12
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    11The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke.

    12By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

  • Jer 51:16
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    16When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Exod 15:10
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    10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • 2 Sam 22:14-15
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    14The LORD thundered from the sky; the Most High shouted loudly.

    15He shot arrows and scattered them, lightning and routed them.

  • Ps 107:24-25
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    24They witnessed the acts of the LORD, his amazing feats on the deep water.

    25He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.

  • Ps 18:7-8
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    7The earth heaved and shook; the roots of the mountains trembled; they heaved because he was angry.

    8Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

  • Nah 1:4-5
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    75%

    4He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.

    5The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

  • 2 Sam 22:8-9
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    75%

    8The earth heaved and shook; the foundations of the sky trembled. They heaved because he was angry.

    9Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

  • Jer 10:13
    75%

    13When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Ps 33:6-7
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    6By the LORD’s decree the heavens were made; and by the breath of his mouth all the starry hosts.

    7He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.

  • 2 Sam 22:17
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    17He reached down from above and grabbed me; he pulled me from the surging water.

  • Ps 77:16-19
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    16The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and trembled. Yes, the depths of the sea shook with fear.

    17The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.

    18Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

    19You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.

  • Ps 104:6-7
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    6The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

    7Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off–

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    28when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,

    29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

  • Job 38:16
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    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

  • Ps 74:15
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    15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • Ps 135:7
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    7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • Job 36:30
    74%

    30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

  • Isa 43:16
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    16This is what the LORD says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,

  • Ps 147:18
    74%

    18He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.

  • Hab 3:10
    74%

    10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

  • Job 12:15
    74%

    15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • Ps 148:8
    73%

    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

  • Ps 29:3
    73%

    3The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water.

  • Job 37:10
    73%

    10The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

  • Job 38:8
    73%

    8“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

  • Ps 74:13
    72%

    13You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.

  • Job 4:9
    72%

    9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

  • Job 41:31
    72%

    31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,

  • Ps 93:4
    72%

    4Above the sound of the surging water, and the mighty waves of the sea, the LORD sits enthroned in majesty.

  • Ps 98:7
    72%

    7Let the sea and everything in it shout, along with the world and those who live in it!

  • Isa 30:28
    72%

    28His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.

  • Job 9:8
    72%

    8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;