Psalms 78:13
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Psalms 78:13 in other translations
| BSB | He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall. |
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| WEB | He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap. |
| ASV | He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap. |
| YLT | He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap. |
| DARBY | He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap; |
| BBE | The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that. |
| Webster | He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. |
What does Psalms 78:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 78:12-14
12-14. A record of God's dealings and the sins of the people is now made. The writer gives the history from the exode to the retreat from Kadesh; then contrasts their sins with their reasons for confidence, shown by a detail of God's dealings in Egypt, and presents a summary of the subsequent history to David's time. Zoan--for Egypt, as its ancient capital (Nu 13:22; Is 19:11).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 78:9-39
Sin dispirits men, and takes away the heart. Forgetfulness of God's works is the cause of disobedience to his laws. This narrative relates a struggle between God's goodness and man's badness. The Lord hears all our murmurings and distrusts, and is much displeased. Those that will not believe the power of God's mercy, shall feel the fire of his indignation. Those cannot be said to trust in God's salvation as their…
Psalms 78:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 78:13
- Exodus 14:21
And 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.
- Exodus 15:8
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Psalms 66:6
He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
- Psalms 106:9-10
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
- Joshua 3:16
That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
- Psalms 136:13-15
To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever: But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- 1 Corinthians 10:2-3
And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
- Isaiah 63:13
That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
- Psalms 38:7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- Habakkuk 3:15
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
- Exodus 14:1-15
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi–hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal–zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so. …
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 78:12
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- Psalms 78:13
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
- Psalms 78:14
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
Psalms 78:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Rompió la mar, é hízolos pasar; é hizo estar las aguas como en un montón. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il fendit la mer, et les fit passer: il fit se dresser les eaux comme un monceau; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er spaltete das Meer und ließ sie hindurchgehen, und ließ die Wasser stehen wie einen Damm. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Nos autem populus tuus, et oves pascuæ tuæ, confitebimur tibi in sæculum; in generationem et generationem annuntiabimus laudem tuam. |