Your way was in the sea, Your path in the great waters, And Your footsteps were not known.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
- KJV Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
- BSB Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
- NASB Your way was in the sea And Your paths in the mighty waters, And Your footprints were not known.
- NLT Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters— a pathway no one knew was there!
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Quick answer
God's way led through the sea and the great waters, though His footsteps were unseen.
Overview
At the Red Sea, God made a path through the deep while His own ways remained hidden and beyond human tracing. His saving acts are visible even when His methods are mysterious. This assures believers that God works powerfully and faithfully even when His path through their trials cannot be fully understood.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Exod 14:28The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
- Ps 29:10Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
- Hab 3:15You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.
- Neh 9:11You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
- Rom 11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
- Ps 97:2Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
- Nah 1:3–4Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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