At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
Parallel translations
- WEB At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
- KJV At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
- NKJV At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.
- NASB They fled from Your rebuke, At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
- NLT At your command, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.
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Quick answer
At God's rebuke the waters fled, hurrying away at the voice of His thunder. His mere word commands the seas to retreat.
Overview
God speaks and the covering waters flee, an image of His sovereign authority over chaos. The thunder of His voice sets all things in order. This is the power of the Word, through whom all things were made and who commanded wind and wave to obey (Mark 4:39).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 18:15The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
- Gen 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- Mark 4:39Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.
- Prov 8:28when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
- Ps 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
- Ps 114:3–7The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
- Ps 77:18Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
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