Psalms 77:17 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 77:17

The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad.

KJV

The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Homily 10, on Psalm 76 (420)

The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you, and they feared. For the moment let us speak according to the letter; let us cling to the earth for the sake of the simpler folk. When the people passed through the Red Sea and through the Jordan, the waters understood their Creator, and the people did not understand. And the depths were troubled. "The sea saw, and fled: the Jordan was turned back." The great sound of the waters. "The clouds shook out the waters," it has in the Hebrew. The clouds gave forth their voice.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 3 (1872)

The clouds poured out water. Obedient to the Lord, the lower region of the atmosphere yielded its aid to overthrow the Egyptian host. The cloudy chariots of heaven hurried forward to discharge their floods. The skies sent out a sound. From the loftier aerial regions thundered the dread artillery of the Lord of Hosts. Peal on peal the skies sounded over the heads of the routed enemies, confusing their minds and adding to their horror. Thine arrows also went abroad. Lightnings flew like bolts from the bow of God.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זֹ֤רְמוּ	Zo.re.mu	they poured forth	H2229 →
מַ֨יִם׀	Ma.yim	water	H4325 →
עָב֗וֹת	a.Vot	clouds	H5645 →
ק֭וֹל	Kol	a sound	H6963 →
נָתְנ֣וּ	na.te.Nu	they gave forth	H5414 →
שְׁחָקִ֑ים	she.cha.Kim	clouds	H7834 →
אַף־	'af-	also	H637 →
חֲ֝צָצֶ֗יךָ	cha.tza.Tzei.kha	arrows your	H2671 →
יִתְהַלָּֽכוּ׃	yit.ha.La.khu	they went about	H1980 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

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.

Through
2 Samuel 22:15
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:23
  I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Judges 5:4
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 33:2
  He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
Through
Psalms 18:14
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
leads to
- Habakkuk 3:11
  Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 144:6
  Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
Through
Psalms 68:33
to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.
leads to
- Psalms 104:3
  laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 18:10
  He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 68:4
  Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. Exalt Him who rides on the clouds— His name is the LORD— and rejoice before Him.
- 1 Kings 8:27
  But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms