The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
Parallel translations
- WEB The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
- BSB The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
- NKJV The depths have covered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone.
- NASB “The waters cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.
- NLT The deep waters gushed over them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
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Quick answer
The deeps covered the Egyptians, and they sank like a stone.
Overview
The vivid image of sinking stones conveys the finality and totality of Egypt's destruction. There is no struggle, only the swift descent of the proud into the depths. God's judgment on the enemies of His people is sure and complete.
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Cross-references · 9
- Neh 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.
- Exod 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.
- Exod 15:10Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
- Jer 51:63–64And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
- Ezek 27:34In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
- Mic 7:19He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- Rev 18:21And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
- Jonah 2:2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
- Matt 18:6But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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