New American Standard Bible 1995
Psalms 114:8
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
Context of Psalms 114:8
6O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs? 7Tremble, O earth, before the Lord, Before the God of Jacob, Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of water.
Read all of Psalms 114Psalms 114:8 word by word
הַהֹפְכִ֣י הַצּ֣וּר אֲגַם־מָ֑יִם חַ֝לָּמִ֗ישׁ לְמַעְיְנוֹ־מָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 114:8
- Psalms 78:15He split the rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.
- Psalms 105:41He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.
- Psalms 107:35He changes a wilderness into a pool of water And a dry 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 will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- Numbers 20:11Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank.
- Deuteronomy 8:15He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.
- Nehemiah 9:15You provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger, You brought forth water from a rock for them for their thirst, And You told them to enter in order to possess The land which You swore to give them.
- 1 Corinthians 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which 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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