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Psalms 114:3

Jordan

1 When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

5 Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
KJV
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
WEB
The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
ASV
The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.
DARBY
The sea saw it and fled, the Jordan turned back;
BLB
The sea saw [Him] and fled; the Jordan turned to the back.
ÅB
Havet så det og flyktet, Jordan vendte om og løp tilbake.
OTB
Havet så det og flyktet;
Jordan snudde tilbake.
B1930
Havet så det og flydde, Jordan vendte om og løp tilbake.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Exodus 14:21

    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

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  • Psalms 77:16

    The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.

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  • Habakkuk 3:8–9

    Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?

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  • Joshua 3:13–16

    When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”

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  • Habakkuk 3:15

    You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.

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  • Isaiah 63:12

    who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

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  • Psalms 74:15

    You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

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  • Psalms 106:9

    He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

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