Psalms 114:3
The sea saw it, and fled, the Jordan river ran backwards.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
In Context
2God chose Judah for himself, Israel became his kingdom.
4Mountains skipped like rams, hills like the young of the flock.
Cross References
Joshua 3:13Whenever the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the water of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be stopped. The waters which are flowing down, they will be dammed up.”
Psalms 74:15It was you who did cleave the fountains and torrents; it was you who did dry the perennial streams.
Psalms 77:17Clouds poured torrents of water, thunder rolled in the sky, your arrows sped to and fro.
Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried; they marched through the depths as through desert,
Habakkuk 3:8Is your wrath, Lord, with the rivers? Is your anger against the streams? Or your rage against the sea? Is that why you ride on your war-steeds? Why you mount your 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 →