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Psalms 114:3
3The [Red] Sea looked and fled; The Jordan turned back.
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Context of Psalms 114:3
1When Israel came out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2Judah became His sanctuary, And Israel His dominion. The [Red] Sea looked and fled; The Jordan turned back. 4The mountains leaped like rams, The [little] hills, like lambs. 5What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
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הַיָּ֣ם רָ֭אָה וַיָּנֹ֑ס הַ֝יַּרְדֵּ֗ן יִסֹּ֥ב לְאָחֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 114:3
- Psalms 77:16The waters [of the Red Sea] saw You, O God; The waters saw You, they were in anguish; The deeps also trembled.
- Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke they fled; At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
- Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.
- Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all that night and turned the seabed into dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Exodus 15:8With the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a mound; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Isaiah 63:12Who caused His glorious arm and infinite power to go at the right hand of Moses, Dividing the waters before them to make for Himself an everlasting name,
- Habakkuk 3:8Did the Lord rage against the rivers, Or was Your anger against the rivers, Or was Your wrath against the [Red] Sea, That You rode on Your horses, On Your chariots of salvation?
- Psalms 74:15You broke open fountains and streams; You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
- Joshua 3:13When the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, [come to] rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan flowing down from above will be cut off, and they will stand in one mass [of water].”
- Habakkuk 3:9Your bow was made bare; The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah (pause, calmly think of that). You split the earth with rivers [bringing waters to dry places].
Commentaries on Psalms 114:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3The sea saw it, and fled - Mr. Addison has properly observed (see Spect. No. 461) that the author of this Psalm designedly works for effect, in pointing out the miraculous driving back the Red Sea and the river Jordan, and the commotion of the hills and mountains, without mentioning any agent. At last, when the reader sees the sea rapidly retiring from the shore, Jordan retreating to its source, and the mountains and hills running away like a flock of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The sea saw it - The word it is supplied, not very properly, by our translators. It would be more expressive to say, “The sea saw:” that is, The sea - (the Red Sea) - saw the mighty movement - the marshalled hosts - the moving masses - the cattle - the pursuing enemies - the commotion - the agitation - on its usually quiet shores. We are to conceive of the usual calmness of the desert - the waste and lonely solitudes on the banks of the Red Sea - and then…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4fled: God parted the waters so that Israel could escape Egypt (Psalm 77:17–18; Exodus 14). The Jordan River turned back when Israel arrived to cross it (see Joshua 3). skipped like rams: God's presence made the mountains quake (Exodus 19:16–20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-81-4. of strange language--(compare Psa 81:5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 114
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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