Psalms 77:19
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Psalms 77:19 in other translations
| BSB | Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found. |
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| WEB | Your way was through the sea, your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known. |
| ASV | Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known. |
| YLT | In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known. |
| DARBY | Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths are in the great waters; and thy footsteps are not known. |
| BBE | Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps. |
| Webster | Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. |
What does Psalms 77:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 77:14-20
14-20. Illustrations of God's power in His special interventions for His people (Ex 14:1-31), and, in the more common, but sublime, control of nature (Psa 22:11-14; Ha 3:14) which may have attended those miraculous events (Ex 14:24).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 77:11-20
The remembrance of the works of God, will be a powerful remedy against distrust of his promise and goodness; for he is God, and changes not. God's way is in the sanctuary. We are sure that God is holy in all his works. God's ways are like the deep waters, which cannot be fathomed; like the way of a ship, which cannot be tracked. God brought Israel out of Egypt. This was typical of the great redemption to be wrought…
Psalms 77:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 77:19
- Exodus 14:28
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
- Habakkuk 3:15
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
- Nehemiah 9:11
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
- Psalms 29:10
The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.
- Psalms 97:2
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
- Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- Nahum 1:3-4
The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
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Context
- Psalms 77:18
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
- Psalms 77:19
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
- Psalms 77:20
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalms 77:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | En la mar fué tu camino, y tus sendas en las muchas aguas; y tus pisadas no fueron conocidas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La voix de ton tonnerre était dans le tourbillon, les éclairs ont illuminé le monde; la terre en a été émue et a tremblé. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Im Meere ist dein Weg, und deine Pfade in großen Wassern, und deine Fußstapfen sind nicht bekannt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et male locuti sunt de Deo; dixerunt: Numquid poterit Deus parare mensam in deserto? |