Psalms 114:3
The pangs of death compassed me; 1 The dangers of hell found me: 1 I found affliction and sorrow. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
In Context
2Because he has inclined his ear to me, 1 Therefore will I call upon him while I live. 1
4Then I called on the name of the Lord: 1 O Lord, deliver my soul. 1
Cross References
Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord carried back the sea with a strong south wind all the night, and made the sea dry, and the water was divided.
Joshua 3:13And it shall come to pass, when the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth rest in the water of Jordan, the water of Jordan below shall fail, and the water coming down from above shall stop.
Psalms 77:17And they sinned yet more against him; 1 They provoked the Most High in the wilderness. 1
Psalms 106:9For he satisfies the empty soul, 1 And fills the hungry soul with good things, 1
Habakkuk 3:8Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? 1 Or was thy wrath against the rivers, 1 Or thine anger against the sea? 1 For thou wilt mount on thy horses, 1 And thy chariots are salvation. 1
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 →