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Psalms 114:8
8He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock.
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
6Why, mountains, did you skip like rams? Why, hills, like lambs? 7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock.
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 open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring.
- Psalms 105:41He split open a rock, and water gushed out to form a river through the dry wasteland.
- Psalms 107:35But he also turns deserts into pools of water, the dry land into springs of water.
- Exodus 17:6I will stand before you on the rock at Mount Sinai. Strike the rock, and water will come gushing out. Then the people will be able to drink.” So Moses struck the rock as he was told, and water gushed out as the elders looked on.
- Numbers 20:11Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the staff, and water gushed out. So the entire community and their livestock drank their fill.
- Deuteronomy 8:15Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock!
- Nehemiah 9:15“You gave them bread from heaven when they were hungry and water from the rock when they were thirsty. You commanded them to go and take possession of the land you had sworn to give them.
- 1 Corinthians 10:4and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that 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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