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Psalms 114:3
3The sea saw and fled, the Jordan turned back.
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Context of Psalms 114:3
1When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob’s house from a people foreign-speaking, 2Judah became His Sanctuary, Israel His dominion. The sea saw and fled, the Jordan turned back. 4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5Why was it, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned 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 77:16With your arm You redeemed Your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
- Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke the waters fled. At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
- Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Sea of Reeds and it dried up, and He led them through the depths as through a wilderness.
- Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. Adonai drove the sea back with a strong east wind throughout the night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided.
- Exodus 15:8With the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps became firm ground in the heart of the sea.
- Isaiah 63:12Who caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? Who divided the waters before them— to make Himself a Name forever?
- Habakkuk 3:8Adonai, is your wrath against rivers? Or Your anger at the rivers? Or is Your fury with the sea? For You ride on Your horses, Your chariots of salvation!
- Psalms 74:15You opened up spring and brook. You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
- Joshua 3:13It will come to pass when the soles of the feet of the kohanim who are carrying the ark of Adonai, Sovereign of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the Jordan’s waters will be cut off. The waters coming downstream will stand up in one heap.”
- Habakkuk 3:9Your bow is laid bare. Sworn are rods—a decree. Selah You cleave 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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