Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Parallel translations
- WEB who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
- BSB who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
- NKJV Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
- NASB Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of water.
- NLT He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock.
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Quick answer
God turned the rock into pools and flint into springs of water. He miraculously provides life-giving water for His people.
Overview
This recalls God bringing water from the rock in the wilderness (Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11), His provision sustaining Israel on the journey. The psalm ends on God's gracious care amid the exodus. Paul says that rock pointed to Christ (1 Corinthians 10:4), the true Rock from whom flows living water for all who thirst (John 7:37-38).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 107:35He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
- Deut 8:15Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
- Num 20:11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
- Ps 105:41He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
- Exod 17:6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- 1 Cor 10:4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
- Ps 78:15–16He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
- Neh 9:15And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
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