Psalms 114:3
The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
In Context
2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
4The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
Cross References
Exodus 14:21Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Joshua 3:13It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of GOD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”
Psalms 74:15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
Psalms 77:17The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
Habakkuk 3:8Was the LORD displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that 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 →