Psalms 114:5

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Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

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Referenced Verses

  • Hab 3:8 : 8 Was the LORD mad at the rivers? Were you angry with the rivers? Were you enraged at the sea? Such that you would climb into your horse-drawn chariots, your victorious chariots?
  • Jer 47:6-7 : 6 How long will you cry out,‘Oh, sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you stop killing? Go back into your sheath! Stay there and rest!’ 7 But how can it rest when I, the LORD, have given it orders? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 114:3-4
    2 verses
    89%

    3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.

    4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

  • Ps 114:6-8
    3 verses
    86%

    6Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills?

    7Tremble, O earth, before the Lord– before the God of Jacob,

    8who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water!

  • Hab 3:10
    77%

    10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

  • Isa 51:10
    76%

    10Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?

  • Ps 77:16
    76%

    16The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and trembled. Yes, the depths of the sea shook with fear.

  • Ps 74:15
    74%

    15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • Judg 5:4
    74%

    4O LORD, when you departed from Seir, when you marched from Edom’s plains, the earth shook, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down rain.

  • Hab 3:15
    74%

    15But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters.

  • Nah 1:4
    74%

    4He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.

  • Hab 3:8
    73%

    8Was the LORD mad at the rivers? Were you angry with the rivers? Were you enraged at the sea? Such that you would climb into your horse-drawn chariots, your victorious chariots?

  • Exod 15:8
    73%

    8By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.

  • Josh 4:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22explain to your children,‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’

    23For the LORD your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the LORD your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it.

  • Ps 66:6
    72%

    6He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. Let us rejoice in him there!

  • Neh 9:11
    72%

    11You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.

  • Ps 104:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

    7Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off–

    8as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

  • Jer 5:22
    72%

    22“You should fear me!” says the LORD.“You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”

  • Ps 46:3
    72%

    3when its waves crash and foam, and the mountains shake before the surging sea.(Selah)

  • Exod 15:10
    71%

    10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • Jer 12:5
    71%

    5The LORD answered,“If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you feel secure only in safe and open country, how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River?

  • Job 38:11
    71%

    11when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

  • Ps 18:15
    71%

    15The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, LORD, by the powerful breath from your nose.

  • Ps 42:7
    71%

    7One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.

  • Jer 4:24
    71%

    24I looked at the mountains and saw that they were shaking. All the hills were swaying back and forth!

  • Ps 77:19
    71%

    19You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.

  • 2 Sam 22:16
    71%

    16The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

  • Exod 14:21
    70%

    21Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.

  • Job 38:16
    70%

    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

  • Ps 93:3
    70%

    3The waves roar, O LORD, the waves roar, the waves roar and crash.

  • Ezek 47:8
    70%

    8He said to me,“These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the rift valley; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.

  • Jer 46:5
    70%

    5“What do I see! The soldiers are frightened. They are retreating. They are being scattered. They have fled for refuge without looking back. Terror is all around them,” says the LORD.

  • Ps 60:2
    70%

    2You made the earth quake; you split it open. Repair its breaches, for it is ready to fall.

  • Isa 43:16
    70%

    16This is what the LORD says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,

  • Josh 4:18
    70%

    18The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land, the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage.

  • Ps 74:13
    70%

    13You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.

  • Ps 124:5
    70%

    5The raging water would have overwhelmed us.

  • Ps 89:9
    70%

    9You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.

  • Jonah 1:11
    70%

    11Because the storm was growing worse and worse, they said to him,“What should we do to you so that the sea will calm down for us?”

  • Josh 3:16
    70%

    16the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam(the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the rift valley(the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.

  • Jer 49:4
    69%

    4Why do you brag about your great power? Your power is ebbing away, you rebellious people of Ammon, who trust in your riches and say,‘Who would dare to attack us?’

  • Exod 14:27
    69%

    27So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

  • Josh 5:1
    69%

    1When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the LORD had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites.

  • 2 Sam 22:5
    69%

    5The waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

  • Jer 46:7
    69%

    7Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?

  • Isa 64:3
    69%

    3When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.