# he commanded and aroused the windstorm that stirs up the seas "he commanded the wind and caused it become a great windstorm that stirred up the sea" # windstorm a strong wind, like the wind that accompanies a strong rain storm # that stirs up the seas Here David describes the winds causing the waves to become high as if the wind was an object fiercely stirring something. Alternate translation: "that caused the waves of the sea to become very high" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])