Psalms 114:3
The sea beheld it, and fled: the Jordan was driven backward.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
In Context
2Judah became his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion.
4The mountains skipped like wethers, the hills like lambs.
Cross References
Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Joshua 3:13And it shall come to pass, that 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 the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, namely, the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand up as a wall.
Psalms 74:15Thou didst cleave fountain and stream: thou didst dry up ever-flowing rivers.
Psalms 77:17(77:18) The clouds poured out water; the skies sent forth thunder: also thy arrows sped along.
Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; and he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Habakkuk 3:8Was the Lord wroth against the rivers? yea, was against the rivers thy anger [kindled]? was against the sea thy wrath that thou rodest upon thy horses, thy chariots of victory!
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 →