Psalms 114:3
The sea, beheld, and fled, The Jordan, turned back;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
In Context
2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his realm:
4The mountains, started like rams, The hills like the young of the flock?
Cross References
Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and Yahweh carried away the sea by a mighty east wind all the night, and turned the sea into dry land,—and the waters were cloven asunder.
Joshua 3:13and it shall be, when the soles of the feet of the priests who are bearing the ark of Yahweh, Lord of all the earth, do rest, in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan, shall be cut off, the waters that are coming down from above,—and shall stand in one mound.
Psalms 74:15Thou, didst cleave open fountain and torrent, Thou, didst dry up rivers of steady flow:
Psalms 77:17The clouds, poured down waters, The skies uttered, a voice, Yea, thine arrows, flew hither and thither;
Psalms 106:9So he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, And he led them through deeps, as pasture-land;
Habakkuk 3:8Against the rivers, is Yahweh wroth? Against the rivers, is thine anger? Against the sea, is thine indignation? For thou wilt ride on Thy horses, Thy chariots, [shall be] 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 →