KJV King James Version
Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
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Psalm 77:19
Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
WEB World English Bible
Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
ASV American Standard Version
Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.
Surrounding context — Psalm 77
16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
18 The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
19 Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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Exodus 14:28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.Psalm 29:10The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.Habakkuk 3:15Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, [through] the heap of great waters.Nehemiah 9:11And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.Nahum 1:3-4The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD [hath] his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out!Psalm 97:2Clouds and darkness [are] round about him: righteousness and judgment [are] the habitation of his throne.
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