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Psalms 114:3
3The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;
Psalms 114:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away.
Context of Psalms 114:3
1When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, 2Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion. The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back; 4the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did 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 saw you, God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed.
- Psalms 104:7But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;
- Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.
- Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided,
- Exodus 15:8By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood up like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Isaiah 63:12who sent his glorious arm of power to be at Moses’ right hand, who divided the waters before them, to gain for himself everlasting renown,
- Habakkuk 3:8Were you angry with the rivers, Lord? Was your wrath against the streams? Did you rage against the sea when you rode your horses and your chariots to victory?
- Psalms 74:15It was you who opened up springs and streams; you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
- Joshua 3:13And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the Lord—the Lord of all the earth—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap.”
- Habakkuk 3:9You uncovered your bow, you called for many arrows. You split the earth 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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