Psalms 114:8
6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
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
- who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
- KJV
- Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
- WEB
- who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
- ASV
- Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters. Psalm 115
- DARBY
- Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
- BLB
- turning the rock [into] a pool of waters, the flint into a spring of waters!
- ÅB
- han som gjør klippen til en vannrik sjø, den hårde stein til en vannkilde!
[^1]: Herrens. - OTB
- Han som forvandlet klippen til en vannpytt,
Flint til en rennende kilde. - B1930
- han som gjør klippen til en vannrik sjø, den hårde sten til en vannkilde!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 107:35
He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:15
He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
Read in contextNumbers 20:11
Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.
Read in contextExodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Read in contextPsalms 105:41
He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:4
and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
Read in contextPsalms 78:15–16
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:15
In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
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