Psalms 78:16

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He brought streams out of the stoneand made water flow down like rivers.

Hebrew Names Version
He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.

King James Version
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

English Standard Version
He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

New Century Version
He brought streams out of the rock and caused water to flow down like rivers.

New English Translation
He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.

Amplified Bible
He brought streams also from the rock [at Rephidim and Kadesh] And caused waters to run down like rivers.

New American Standard Bible
He brought forth streams from the rock And made waters run down like rivers.

World English Bible
He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.

Legacy Standard Bible
He brought forth streams also from the cliff faceAnd caused waters to run down like rivers.

Berean Standard Bible
He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

Contemporary English Version
He made streams gush out like rivers from rocks.

Complete Jewish Bible
yes, he brought streams out of the rock, making the water flow down like rivers.

Darby Translation
And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Easy-to-Read Version
He brought a stream of water out of the rock and made it flow like a river!

George Lamsa Translation
He brought forth streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Good News Translation
He caused a stream to come out of the rock and made water flow like a river.

Lexham English Bible
And he brought streams out of the rock and caused water to flow down like rivers.

Literal Translation
And He brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to go down like rivers.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He cloaue the hard rockes in the wildernesse, and gaue them drynke therof, as it had bene out of the greate deapth.

American Standard Version
He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Bible in Basic English
He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

King James Version (1611)
Hee brought streames also out of the rocke, and caused waters to runne downe like riuers.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He brought running streames out of a stonie rocke: and caused waters to gushe downe, like as out of riuers.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers.

English Revised Version
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he ledde watir out of the stoon; and he ledde forth watris as floodis.

Update Bible Version
He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Webster's Bible Translation
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

New King James Version
He also brought streams out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.

New Living Translation
He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river!

New Life Bible
He made water come out of the rock. He made the water flow down like rivers.

New Revised Standard
He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he brought forth streams out of the cliff, And caused waters to flow down, like rivers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-16) He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

Revised Standard Version
He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

Young's Literal Translation
And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He brought forth streams also from the rock And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Contextual Overview

⁹The Ephraimites, armed to the teeth, ran off when the battle began. They were cowards to God's Covenant, refused to walk by his Word. They forgot what he had done— marvels he'd done right before their eyes. He performed miracles in plain sight of their parents in Egypt, out on the fields of Zoan. He split the Sea and they walked right through it; he piled the waters to the right and the left. He led them by day with a cloud, led them all the night long with a fiery torch. He split rocks in the wilderness, gave them all they could drink from underground springs; He made creeks flow out from sheer rock, and water pour out like a river. ¹⁷All they did was sin even more, rebel in the desert against the High God. They tried to get their own way with God, clamored for favors, for special attention. They whined like spoiled children, "Why can't God give us a decent meal in this desert? Sure, he struck the rock and the water flowed, creeks cascaded from the rock. But how about some fresh-baked bread? How about a nice cut of meat?" ²¹When God heard that, he was furious— his anger flared against Jacob, he lost his temper with Israel. It was clear they didn't believe God, had no intention of trusting in his help. But God helped them anyway, commanded the clouds and gave orders that opened the gates of heaven. He rained down showers of manna to eat, he gave them the Bread of Heaven. They ate the bread of the mighty angels; he sent them all the food they could eat. He let East Wind break loose from the skies, gave a strong push to South Wind. This time it was birds that rained down— succulent birds, an abundance of birds. He aimed them right for the center of their camp; all round their tents there were birds. They ate and had their fill; he handed them everything they craved on a platter. But their greed knew no bounds; they stuffed their mouths with more and more. Finally, God was fed up, his anger erupted— he cut down their brightest and best, he laid low Israel's finest young men. ³²And—can you believe it?—they kept right on sinning; all those wonders and they still wouldn't believe! So their lives dribbled off to nothing— nothing to show for their lives but a ghost town. When he cut them down, they came running for help; they turned and pled for mercy. They gave witness that God was their rock, that High God was their redeemer, But they didn't mean a word of it; they lied through their teeth the whole time. They could not have cared less about him, wanted nothing to do with his Covenant. ³⁸And God? Compassionate! Forgave the sin! Didn't destroy! Over and over he reined in his anger, restrained his considerable wrath. He knew what they were made of; he knew there wasn't much to them, How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years. Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel's Holy God. How quickly they forgot what he'd done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy, When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan. He turned the River and its streams to blood— not a drop of water fit to drink. He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which bedeviled them. He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts. He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards. He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds. His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn't spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives. He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham's virility. Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness. He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good. He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own. He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them— the tribes of Israel all had their own places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 105:41, Deuteronomy 8:15, Deuteronomy 9:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 17:6 - and thou Numbers 20:8 - bring forth 1 Kings 17:6 - the ravens 2 Kings 3:20 - filled Psalms 114:8 - General Isaiah 35:6 - for Isaiah 41:18 - General Isaiah 43:19 - rivers Isaiah 44:3 - floods Ezekiel 47:9 - rivers Habakkuk 3:9 - Thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He brought streams also out of the rock,.... Which is expressed in the singular number, as also in Psalms 78:20, because the children of Israel were not come to Kadesh, and the second rock was not smitten when they lusted after flesh, and murmured against God, and tempted him, as is after related:

and caused waters to run down like rivers; from the descent of the rock, which followed them all the way in the wilderness; this was a most marvellous thing, that water should flow from a flinty rock upon striking it, from whence fire rather than water might have been expected; and that it should flow in such great abundance, and that from a rock in a wilderness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He brought streams also out of the rock ... - literally, “flowings.” The waters were poured out in an over-flowing stream. Those streams continued to flow, thus constituting a continued proof of the presence of God. See this fully explained in the notes at 1 Corinthians 10:4.