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At Your rebuke, God of Jacob, Both rider and horse were cast into a dead sleep.
Psalms 76:6 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
  • KJV At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
  • BSB At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.
  • NKJV At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both the chariot and horse were cast into a dead sleep.
  • NLT At the blast of your breath, O God of Jacob, their horses and chariots lay still.

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Quick answer

At God's rebuke both chariot and horse fall into a deathlike sleep.

Overview

A single rebuke from the God of Jacob is enough to immobilize the enemy's military might. The chariot and horse, symbols of strength, are rendered powerless. This echoes the Red Sea deliverance and underscores that victory comes by God's word, not human force, foreshadowing the power of Christ's word over every foe.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Exod 15:1Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
  • Exod 15:21Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
  • Ps 80:16It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
  • Exod 15:10You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
  • Ezek 39:20You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Exod 14:27–28Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
  • 2 Sam 10:18The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.
  • Jer 51:57I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
  • Nah 2:13“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
  • Exod 15:4–6He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
  • Ps 104:7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
  • 1 Sam 26:12So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them.
  • Nah 3:18Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
  • Jer 51:39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
  • Isa 37:36Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  • Ps 18:15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
  • Nah 1:6Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
  • Zech 12:4In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 76:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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