Psalms 107:29

He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

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He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

BSB

He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

KJV

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

ASV

He maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still.

BBE

He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.

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יָקֵם ya·kem he raised H6965 סְעָרָה se·'a·rah [the] storm H5591 לִדְמָמָה lid·ma·mah into a calm H1827 וַיֶּחֱשׁוּ vai·ye·che·shu and they were still H2814 גַּלֵּיהֶם ga·lei·hem waves their H1530

The early church

"And they cried out unto the Lord when they were troubled, and He delivered them from their distresses" (ver. 28). "And He commanded the storm, and it stood unto clear air" (ver. 29), "and the waves of it were still." Hear on this point the voice of a steersman, one that was in peril, was brought low, was freed. "I would not," he saith, "have you ignorant, brethren, of our distress, which befell us in Asia, that "we were pressed above strength, and above measure" (I see all his "wisdom swallowed up"), "so that we were weary," he saith, "even of life." ...

Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 23–32

Let those who go to sea, consider and adore the Lord. Mariners have their business upon the tempestuous ocean, and there witness deliverances of which others cannot form an idea. How seasonable it is at such a time to pray! This may remind us of the terrors and distress of conscience many experience, and of those deep scenes of trouble which many pass through, in their Christian course. Yet, in answer to their cries, the Lord turns their storm into a calm, and causes their trials to end in gladness.

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Spurgeon · Verse 29

He maketh the storm a calm. He reveals his power in the sudden and marvellous transformations which occur at his bidding. He commanded the storm and now he ordains a calm: God is in all natural phenomena, and we do well to recognise his working. So that the waves thereof are still. They bow in silence at his feet. Where huge billows leaped aloft there is scarce a ripple to be seen. When God makes peace it is peace indeed, the peace of God which passeth all understanding. He can in an instant change the condition of a man's mind, so that it shall seem an absolute miracle to him that he has passed so suddenly from hurricane to calm. O that the Lord would thus work in the reader, should his heart be storm beaten with outward troubles or inward fears. Lord, say the word and peace will come at once.

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