Psalms 114:8
6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
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 turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:15
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Read in contextNumbers 20:11
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
Read in contextExodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Read in contextPsalms 105:41
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:4
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Read in contextPsalms 78:15–16
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:15
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
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