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Psalms 114:3
3The Red Sea looked at this and ran away. The Jordan River turned back.
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Context of Psalms 114:3
1When Israel left Egypt, when Jacob’s family left people who spoke a foreign language, 2Judah became his holy place and Israel became his kingdom. The Red Sea looked at this and ran away. The Jordan River turned back. 4The mountains jumped like rams. The hills jumped like lambs. 5Red Sea, why did you run away? Jordan River, what made 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 water saw you, O God. The water saw you and shook. Even the depths of the sea trembled.
- Psalms 104:7and fled because of your threat. Water ran away at the sound of your thunder.
- Psalms 106:9He angrily commanded the Red Sea, and it dried up. He led them through deep water as though it were a desert.
- Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. All that night the Lord pushed back the sea with a strong east wind and turned the sea into dry ground. The water divided,
- Exodus 15:8With a blast from your nostrils, the water piled up. The waves stood up like a dam. The deep water thickened in the middle of the sea.
- Isaiah 63:12Where is the one who sent his powerful arm to support the right hand of Moses? Where is the one who divided the water in front of them to make an everlasting name for himself?
- Habakkuk 3:8The Lord is not angry with the rivers, is he? If you are angry with the rivers, if you are furious with the sea, ⌞why⌟ do you ride your horses, your chariots of salvation?
- Psalms 74:15You opened the springs and brooks. You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
- Joshua 3:13The priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of the whole earth, will stand in the water of the Jordan. Then the water flowing from upstream will stop and stand up like a dam.”
- Habakkuk 3:9You get your bow ready for action, for the arrows ⌞you⌟ promised. Selah You split the land with rivers.
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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