KJV King James Version
The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back.
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Psalm 114:3
The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
WEB World English Bible
The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
ASV American Standard Version
The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The sea hath seen, and fleeth, The Jordan turneth backward.
Surrounding context — Psalm 114
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?
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Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided.Psalm 77:16The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.Habakkuk 3:8-9Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? [was] thine anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses [and] thy chariots of salvation?Joshua 3:13-16And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, [that] the waters of Jordan shall be cut off [from] the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.Isaiah 63:12That led [them] by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?Habakkuk 3:15Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, [through] the heap of great waters.Psalm 104:7At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.Psalm 74:15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.Exodus 15:8And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, [and] the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.Psalm 106:9He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
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