Mazmur 89:9

89:9 You rule over the proud sea. ¹ 

When its waves surge, ²  you calm them.

Mazmur 107:29

107:29 He calmed the storm, ³ 

and the waves ⁴  grew silent.

Yunus 1:4

1:4 But ⁵  the Lord hurled ⁶  a powerful ⁷  wind on the sea. Such a violent ⁸  tempest arose on the sea that ⁹  the ship threatened to break up! ¹⁰ 

Yunus 1:15

1:15 So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

Matius 8:26-27

8:26 But ¹¹  he said to them, “Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked ¹²  the winds and the sea, ¹³  and it was dead calm. 8:27 And the men ¹⁴  were amazed and said, ¹⁵  “What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!” ¹⁶ 

[89:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the majesty of the sea.”

[89:9]  ² tn Heb “rise up.”

[107:29]  ³ tn Heb “he raised [the] storm to calm.”

[107:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “their waves.” The antecedent of the third masculine plural pronominal suffix is not readily apparent, unless it refers back to “waters” in v. 23.

[1:4]  ⁵ tn The disjunctive construction of vav + nonverb followed by a nonpreterite marks a strong contrast in the narrative action (וַיהוָה הֵטִיל, vayhvah hetil; “But the Lord hurled…”).

[1:4]  ⁶ tn The Hiphil of טוּל (tul, “to hurl”) is used here and several times in this episode for rhetorical emphasis (see vv. 5 and 15).

[1:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “great.” Typically English versions vary the adjective here and before “tempest” to avoid redundancy: e.g., KJV, ASV, NRSV “great...mighty”; NAB “violent…furious”; NIV “great…violent”; NLT “powerful…violent.”

[1:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “great.”

[1:4]  ⁹ tn The nonconsecutive construction of vav + nonverb followed by nonpreterite is used to emphasize this result clause (וְהָאֳנִיָּה חִשְּׁבָה לְהִשָׁבֵר, vÿha’oniyyah khishvah lÿhishaver; “that the ship threatened to break up”).

[1:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the ship seriously considered breaking apart.” The use of חָשַׁב (khashav, “think”) in the Piel (“to think about; to seriously consider”) personifies the ship to emphasize the ferocity of the storm. The lexicons render the clause idiomatically: “the ship was about to be broken up” (BDB 363 s.v. חָשַׁב 2; HALOT 360 s.v. חשׁב).

[8:26]  ¹¹ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[8:26]  ¹² tn Or “commanded” (often with the implication of a threat, L&N 33.331).

[8:26]  ¹³ sn Who has authority over the seas and winds is discussed in the OT: Ps 104:3; 135:7; 107:23-30. When Jesus rebuked the winds and the sea he was making a statement about who he was.

[8:27]  ¹⁴ tn It is difficult to know whether ἄνθρωποι (anqrwpoi) should be translated as “men” or “people” (in a generic sense) here. At issue is whether (1) only the Twelve were with Jesus in the boat, as opposed to other disciples (cf. v. 23), and (2) whether any of those other disciples would have been women. The issue is complicated further by the parallel in Mark (4:35-41), where the author writes (4:36) that other boats accompanied them on this journey.

[8:27]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “the men were amazed, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) has been translated as a finite verb to make the sequence of events clear in English.

[8:27]  ¹⁶ sn Jesus’ authority over creation raised a question for the disciples about his identity (What sort of person is this?). This verse shows that the disciples followed Jesus even though they did not know all about him yet.