Psalms 106:9

God rebuked the Red Sea so it dried up, and led them through as on dry ground. It matters because He commands creation to make a way of salvation.

Cross-references · 16

• 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.
• Isa 51:10Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
• Isa 63:11–14Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
• Nah 1:4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
• Ps 78:13He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
• Exod 14:21–22Then 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,
• Exod 14:27–29So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.
• Neh 9:11You 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.
• Ps 136:13–16He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
• Ps 66:6He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
• Ps 77:19–20Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
• Ps 78:52–53He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
• Ps 114:3–7The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
• Isa 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
• Matt 8:26“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
• Isa 11:14–16They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

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