Psalms 93:3

"The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah,

The floods have lifted up their voice;

The floods lift up their waves

Above the voice of many waters,

The mighty breakers of the sea,

Jehovah on high is mighty."

"The floods ... their voice ... their waves ... the mighty breakers of the sea" (Psalms 93:3-4). God's enemies among the pagan Gentile nations are often described in the Old Testament as "floods." Isaiah 8:7-8 is an outstanding example. "The floods here seem to mean the world powers, God's enemies."[3]

Delitzsch also agreed with this.

"The sea with its mighty mass of waters, with the constant unrest of its waves, with its ceaseless pressing against the land and foaming against the rocks, is an emblem of the Gentile world alienated from God and at enmity against Him. The rivers (floods) are emblems of worldly kingdoms; the Nile stands for Egypt, the Tigris for Assyria, and the Euphrates for Babylon."[4]

"The mighty breakers of the sea" (Psalms 93:4), This writer was stationed once on the USS Midway (CVB-41), a mighty aircraft carrier, and we encountered a storm in the Arctic Ocean. The waves of the ocean reached a height of something like a hundred feet, and the terrible power of such mighty waves strikes fear into the hearts of all who ever witnessed them. Through the courtesy of Gene Hazen of the Washington D.C. television pool of reporters, we procured moving pictures of those mighty waves breaking over the bow of the Midway. These may still be viewed in the A.C.U. Library, in the documentary film released by the U.S. Navy, entitled "Exercise Mainbrace" (1952).

Those mighty waves crashed in the hanger door of our great ship and destroyed a couple of aircraft.

The sea metaphor of the evil populations of mankind appears also in the New Testament in Revelation 13, which depicts the great Scarlet Beast with seven heads and ten horns coming up out of the restless populations of the earth.

Before leaving these verses, we should note the fashion among some schools of commentators to find all kinds of Babylonian mythology in a passage like this. Our conviction is that they are finding what is definitely not in it. We do not believe that the Israelites were overly conscious of the mythology of their Babylonian captors. "In its theology, Israel was not half as much influenced by Babylonian mythology as many commentators are inclined to believe."[5]

"Jehovah on high is mighty" (Psalms 93:4). The adverb `above' which stands at the head of Psalms 93:4 applies to this clause. Jehovah is on high above the thundering breakers of the mighty ocean. This is a beautiful way of saying that Jehovah reigns supremely above the roaring passions of earth's wicked nations foaming out their hatred of God and their opposition to his kingdom.