Acts 27:29

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Psalm 130:6

My soul looks for the Lord more than sentinels for daybreak. More than sentinels for daybreak,

Acts 27:17

They hoisted it aboard, then used cables to undergird the ship. Because of their fear that they would run aground on the shoal of Syrtis, they lowered the drift anchor and were carried along in this way.

Acts 27:26

We are destined to run aground on some island.”

Acts 27:28

They took soundings and found twenty fathoms; a little farther on, they again took soundings and found fifteen fathoms.

Acts 27:30

The sailors then tried to abandon ship; they lowered the dinghy to the sea on the pretext of going to lay out anchors from the bow.

Deuteronomy 28:67

In the morning you will say, “Would that it were evening!” and in the evening you will say, “Would that it were morning!” because of the dread that your heart must feel and the sight that your eyes must see.

Hebrews 6:19

This we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, which reaches into the interior behind the veil,