Psalms 114:3
The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
In Context
2Judea made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
4The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.
Cross References
Exodus 14:21And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.
Joshua 3:13And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap.
Psalms 74:15Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
Psalms 77:17The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: and they were afraid, and the depths were troubled.
Psalms 106:9And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.
Habakkuk 3:8Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath upon the rivers? or thy indignation in the sea? Who will ride upon thy horses: and thy chariots are salvation.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 114:2-8
The Deliverance of Israel Celebrated. 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. 3 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? 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… Read the whole commentary →