New Revised Standard Version
Fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.

Contemporary English Version
The sailors were afraid that we might hit some rocks, and they let down four anchors from the back of the ship. Then they prayed for daylight.

New American Bible
Fearing that we would run aground on a rocky coast, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern: and wished for the day.

Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern: and wished for the day.

fallen.

Acts 27:17,41 Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down the sail yard and so were driven. . . .

anchors.

Acts 27:30,40 But as the shipmen sought to fly out of the ship, having let down the boat into the sea, under colour, as though they would have cast anchors out of the forepart of the ship, . . .

Hebrews 6:19 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil:

and wished.

Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes.

Psalm 130:6 From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.