Psalms 114:3
The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
In Context
2Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel His dominion.
4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
Cross References
Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
Joshua 3:13When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”
Psalms 74:15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
Psalms 77:17The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
Habakkuk 3:8Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of 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 →