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Psalms 107:27
Psalms 107:27 is verse 27 of Psalms chapter 107, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
Or and all their wisdom was swallowed up or and they were at their wits’ end
King James Version
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.
World English Bible
They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
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Psalms 107:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
26 They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.
27 They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
28 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
29 He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 12:25They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
Isaiah 19:14The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
Isaiah 29:9Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
Job 37:20Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up ?
Isaiah 19:3Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
Acts 27:15Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.
Acts 27:16Passing to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.
Acts 27:17After hoisting it up, the crew used ropes to undergird the ship. And fearing that they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and were driven along.
Acts 27:18We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.
Acts 27:19On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
Acts 27:20When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.