Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Parallel translations
- WEB You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
- BSB You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
- NKJV You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up mighty rivers.
- NASB You broke open springs and torrents; You dried up ever-flowing streams.
- NLT You caused the springs and streams to gush forth, and you dried up rivers that never run dry.
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Quick answer
God opens springs and streams yet dries up mighty rivers, showing He controls both provision and the obstacles before His people.
Overview
This verse recalls God's provision of water from the rock and His drying of the Jordan and the Red Sea so Israel could pass. The Creator who gives life-giving water also removes barriers that block His people's path. Such sovereign control over creation grounds the psalmist's plea for present help.
Cross-references & the web
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- 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.
- Exod 17:5–6And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
- Isa 48:21And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
- Ps 105:41He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
- Josh 3:13–17And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
- Josh 2:10For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
- Isa 44:27That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
- Ps 78:15He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
- Exod 14:21–22And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Isa 11:16And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Hab 3:9Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
- 2 Kgs 2:14And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
- Rev 16:12And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
- 2 Kgs 2:8And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
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