Psalms 114:3
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
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.
Compare
- 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
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Read in contextPsalms 77:16
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:8–9
Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
Read in contextJoshua 3:13–16
And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:15
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
Read in contextIsaiah 63:12
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Read in contextPsalms 74:15
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Read in contextPsalms 106:9
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
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