Psalm 78:13
New International Version
He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand up like a wall.

New Living Translation
For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls!

English Standard Version
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.

Berean Standard Bible
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

King James Bible
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

New King James Version
He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

New American Standard Bible
He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

NASB 1995
He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

NASB 1977
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Legacy Standard Bible
He split the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Amplified Bible
He divided the [Red] Sea and allowed them to pass through it, And He made the waters stand up like [water behind] a dam.

Christian Standard Bible
He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wall.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wall.

American Standard Version
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He split the sea and made them pass over and he stood up the waters like water skins.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as in a bottle.

Contemporary English Version
God made a path in the sea and piled up the water as he led them across.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

English Revised Version
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He divided the sea and led them through it. He made the waters stand up like a wall.

Good News Translation
He divided the sea and took them through it; he made the waters stand like walls.

International Standard Version
He divided the sea so that they were able to cross; he caused the water to stand in a single location.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; And He made the waters to stand as a heap.

Literal Standard Version
He cleft a sea, and causes them to pass over, | Indeed, He causes waters to stand as a heap.

Majority Standard Bible
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

New American Bible
He split the sea and led them across, making the waters stand like walls.

NET Bible
He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.

New Revised Standard Version
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.

New Heart English Bible
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

Webster's Bible Translation
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.

World English Bible
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

Young's Literal Translation
He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap.

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Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
12He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. 13He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall. 14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.…

Cross References
Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

Exodus 14:22
and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Exodus 15:8
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

Psalm 33:7
He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

Psalm 74:13
You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

Psalm 106:9
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

Psalm 136:13
He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.


Treasury of Scripture

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

he divided

Psalm 66:6
He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

Psalm 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…

Psalm 136:13-15
To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: …

made

Psalm 38:7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

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.

Habakkuk 3:15
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














(13) As an heap.--See Note, Psalm 33:7.

Verse 13. - He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through (see Exodus 14:21, 22). And he made the waters to stand as an heap. The expression is taken from the Song of Moses (Exodus 15:8). It must be understood poetically.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He split
בָּ֣קַע (bā·qa‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1234: To cleave, to rend, break, rip, open

the sea
יָ֭ם (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

and brought them through;
וַיַּֽעֲבִירֵ֑ם (way·ya·‘ă·ḇî·rêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

He set
וַֽיַּצֶּב־ (way·yaṣ·ṣeḇ-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5324: To take one's stand, stand

the waters {upright}
מַ֥יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

like
כְּמוֹ־ (kə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when

a wall.
נֵֽד׃ (nêḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5067: A mound, wave


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