English Standard Version
Psalms 114:8
8who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
Psalms 114:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
- New International Version (NIV)who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock.
Context of Psalms 114:8
6O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs? 7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
Read all of Psalms 114Psalms 114:8 word by word
הַהֹפְכִ֣י הַצּ֣וּר אֲגַם־מָ֑יִם חַ֝לָּמִ֗ישׁ לְמַעְיְנוֹ־מָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 114:8
- Psalms 78:15He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
- Psalms 105:41He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river.
- Psalms 107:35He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.
- Exodus 17:6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- Numbers 20:11And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
- Deuteronomy 8:15who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,
- Nehemiah 9:15You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.
- 1 Corinthians 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Commentaries on Psalms 114:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8The flint - I have translated חלמיש challamish, Granite; for such is the rock of Horeb, a piece of which now lies before me. This short and apparently imperfect Psalm, for elegance and sublimity, yields to few in the whole book. It is so well translated in the old Psalter, that I think I shall gratify the reader by laying it before him. Psalm 114:1; In gangyng of Isrel oute of Egipt, Of the house of Jacob fra hethen folke. Psalm 114:2; Made is Jude his…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Which turned the rock into a standing water - That is, Before him who could do this, the earth should tremble; the inhabited world should stand in awe of such amazing power. The words rendered “a standing water,” mean properly a pool of water. They indicate nothing in regard to the permanency of that pool; they do not imply that it remained as a standing pool during the sojourn of the Israelites in the wilderness - whatever may have been the fact in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8The Lord miraculously provided for his people in hard times after the exile, just as he had done in the wilderness after the exodus.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-85-8. The questions place the implied answers in a more striking form.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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