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I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

Psalms 78:15

In 11 translations

BSB
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
KJV
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
WEB
He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
ASV
He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
LSV
He cleaves rocks in a wilderness, || And gives drink—as the great deep.
YLT
He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink — as the great deep.
DBY
He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
DRC77:15
He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.
GNV
He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.
JPS
He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.
LXXE77:15
He clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
יְבַקַּ֣ע צֻ֭רִים בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַ֝יַּ֗שְׁקְ כִּתְהֹמ֥וֹת רַבָּֽה׃
LXX-Br77:15
Διέῤῥηξε πέτραν ἐν ἐρήμῳ, καὶ ἐπότισεν αὐτοὺς ὡς ἐν ἀβύσσῳ πολλῇ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 17:6Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
  • Psalms 105:41He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
  • Numbers 20:11Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
  • Psalms 114:8who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
  • Isaiah 43:20The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
  • Revelation 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
  • Isaiah 48:21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
  • Isaiah 41:18I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
  • Revelation 22:1Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
  • John 7:37–38On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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