Psalms 114:3

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Psalms 114:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.

3 The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

5 Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

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Psalms 77:16

The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.

Psalms 104:7

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

Psalms 106:9

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

Exodus 14:21

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 divided,

Exodus 15:8

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.

Isaiah 63:12

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,

Habakkuk 3:8

Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?

Habakkuk 3:15

You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.

Psalms 74:15

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Joshua 3:13

When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”

Joshua 3:14

So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

Joshua 3:15

Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,

Joshua 3:16

the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea ) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

Habakkuk 3:9

You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.