Psalm 32:6 {31:6}
Good News Translation
So all your loyal people should pray to you in times of need; when a great flood of trouble comes rushing in, it will not reach them.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore let all who are faithful offer prayer to you; at a time of distress, the rush of mighty waters shall not reach them.

Contemporary English Version
We worship you, Lord, and we should always pray whenever we find out that we have sinned. Then we won't be swept away by a raging flood.

New American Bible
Therefore every loyal person should pray to you in time of distress. Though flood waters threaten, they will never reach him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

For this

Psalm 34:2-5 In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice. . . .

Psalm 40:3 And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.

Psalm 51:12,13 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God.

1 Timothy 1:16 But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

godly

Psalm 4:3 Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.

2 Corinthians 7:9,10 Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing. . . .

Titus 2:12 Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world,

pray

Proverbs 1:28 Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Isaiah 49:8 Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, and given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed:

Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

Luke 19:42-44 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. . . .

John 7:34 You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

2 Corinthians 6:2 For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: behold, now is the day of salvation.

a time [heb] a time of finding

Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Psalm 69:1,2,13-15 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. . . .

Psalm 124:4,5 Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up. . . .

Genesis 7:17-22 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth. . . .

Isaiah 43:2 When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:

Matthew 7:24-27 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, . . .

Revelation 12:15,16 And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. . . .

Context
The Providence of God
5I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin. 6For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.7Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.…
Cross References
Psalm 18:16
He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.

Psalm 46:1
Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden. [2] Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.

Psalm 69:1
Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.

Psalm 69:13
But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

Psalm 124:4
Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

Psalm 124:5
Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

Psalm 144:7
Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

Isaiah 43:2
When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:

Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

Jeremiah 29:13
You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:14
And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive.

Hosea 5:10
The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Psalm 32:5
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