Psalms 114:3
The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
BSB
ASV
The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.
KJV
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
The sea saw it - The word it is supplied, not very properly, by our translators. It would be more expressive to say, “The sea saw:” that is, The sea - (the Red Sea) - saw the mighty movement - the marshalled hosts - the moving masses - the cattle - the pursuing enemies - the commotion - the agitation - on its usually quiet shores.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were…
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At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
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Psalms 77:16The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
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Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were…
You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
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Habakkuk 3:15You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
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Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.