He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock.
Parallel translations
- WEB who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
- KJV Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain 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.
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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
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 107:35He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
- Deut 8:15who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;
- Num 20:11Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
- Ps 105:41He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
- Exod 17:6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- 1 Cor 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
- Ps 78:15–16He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
- Neh 9:15and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
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