Psalms 77:17

New Living Translation

The clouds poured down rain; the thunder rumbled in the sky. Your arrows of lightning flashed.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
The clouds poured out water;The skies gave forth a sound;Your arrows went here and there.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The clouds poured out water; The skies gave forth a sound; Your arrows flashed here and there.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thicke cloudes powred downe rayne, thinne cloudes gaue a noyse: and thine arrowes went abrode into al corners.

Darby Translation
The thick clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound, yea, thine arrows went abroad:

New King James Version
The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound; Your arrows also flashed about.

Literal Translation
The clouds poured out water; the skies uttered a voice; and Your arrows flew out.

Easy-to-Read Version
The thick clouds dropped their water. Thunder roared in the sky above. Your arrows of lightning flashed through the clouds.

World English Bible
The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

King James Version (1611)
The cloudes powred out water, the skies sent out a sound; thine arrowes also went abroad.

King James Version
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The thicke cloudes poured out water, ye cloudes thodered, and thy arowes wente abrode.

Amplified Bible
The clouds poured down water; The skies sent out a sound [of rumbling thunder]; Your arrows (lightning) flashed here and there.

American Standard Version
The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad.

Bible in Basic English
The clouds sent out water; the skies gave out a sound; truly, your arrows went far and wide.

Update Bible Version
The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Your arrows also went abroad.

Webster's Bible Translation
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thy arrows also went abroad.

New English Translation
The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.

Contemporary English Version
Water flowed from the clouds. Thunder was heard above as your arrows of lightning flashed about.

Complete Jewish Bible
The water saw you, God; the water saw you and writhed in anguish, agitated to its depths.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The cloudes powred out water: the heauens gaue a sounde: yea, thine arrowes went abroade.

George Lamsa Translation
The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound; thine arrows also flew around.

Hebrew Names Version
The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The waters saw Thee, O God; the waters saw Thee, they were in pain; the depths also trembled.

New Life Bible
The clouds poured down water. The sky sounded with thunder. Your arrows of lightning went this way and that.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There was an abundant sound of waters: the clouds uttered a voice; for thine arrows went abroad.

English Revised Version
The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

Berean Standard Bible
The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

New Revised Standard
The clouds poured out water; the skies thundered; your arrows flashed on every side.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The clouds, poured down waters, The skies uttered, a voice, Yea, thine arrows, flew hither and thither;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(76-18) Great was the noise of the waters: the clouds sent out a sound. For thy arrows pass:

Lexham English Bible
The clouds poured out water. The skies thundered. Your arrows also flew about.

English Standard Version
The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; your arrows flashed on every side.

New American Standard Bible
The clouds poured out water; The skies sounded out; Your arrows flashed here and there.

New Century Version
The clouds poured down their rain. The sky thundered. Your lightning flashed back and forth like arrows.

Good News Translation
The clouds poured down rain; thunder crashed from the sky, and lightning flashed in all directions.

Christian Standard Bible®
The clouds poured down water. The storm clouds thundered; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The multitude of the soun of watris; cloudis yauen vois.

Young's Literal Translation
Poured out waters have thick clouds, The skies have given forth a noise, Also -- Thine arrows go up and down.

Revised Standard Version
The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; thy arrows flashed on every side.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ But then I recall all you have done, O Lord ; I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago. ¹² They are constantly in my thoughts. I cannot stop thinking about your mighty works. ¹³ O God, your ways are holy. Is there any god as mighty as you? ¹⁴ You are the God of great wonders! You demonstrate your awesome power among the nations. ¹⁵ By your strong arm, you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Interlude ¹⁶ When the Red Sea saw you, O God, its waters looked and trembled! The sea quaked to its very depths. ¹⁷ The clouds poured down rain; the thunder rumbled in the sky. Your arrows of lightning flashed. ¹⁸ Your thunder roared from the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world! The earth trembled and shook. ¹⁹ Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters— a pathway no one knew was there! ²⁰ You led your people along that road like a flock of sheep, with Moses and Aaron as their shepherds.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

poured out like water, Heb. were poured forth with water, Psalms 68:8, Psalms 68:9

thine: Psalms 18:14, Psalms 144:6, 2 Samuel 22:15, Habakkuk 3:11

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:11 - the Lord Judges 5:4 - dropped Judges 5:20 - fought Psalms 68:33 - his voice Ezekiel 10:5 - the voice Zechariah 9:14 - his

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The clouds poured out water,.... This, with some other circumstances which follow, are not related by Moses in the history of this affair; but as they are here recorded by an inspired penman, there is no doubt to be made of the truth of them; besides Josephus a relates the same things; he says, that at the time when the Egyptians were drowned in the Red sea, rains descended from heaven, and there were terrible thunders, lightnings, and thunderbolts; this was when the Lord looked through the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,

Exodus 14:24,

the skies sent out a sound; or the airy clouds, the lighter ones, and which were higher in the heavens, as the others before mentioned were thick clouds, full of water, and hung lower; these were thunderclouds, and thunder is the sound which they sent forth, as in the following verse:

thine arrows also went abroad: that is, lightnings, as in

Psalms 18:14, so Aben Ezra; but Kimchi interprets them of hailstones.

a Antiqu. l. 2. c. 16. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The clouds poured out water - Margin, “The clouds were poured forth with water.” The translation in the text is the more correct. This is a description of a storm; but to what particular storm in history does not appear. It was evidently some exhibition of the divine greatness and power in delivering the children of Israel, and may have referred to the extraordinary manifestation of God at Mount Sinai, amidst lightnings, and thunders, and tempests. Exodus 19:16. For a general description of a storm, as illustrating this passage, see Job 36:26-33, notes; Job 37:1-5, notes; and Psalms 29:1-11.

The skies sent out a sound - The voice of thunder, which seems to come from the sky.

Thine arrows also - The lightnings - compared with burning or ignited arrows. Such arrows were anciently used in war. They were bound round with rags, and dipped in some combustible substance - as turpentine - and shot into houses, grain-fields, haystacks, or towns, for the purpose of setting them on fire. It was not unnatural to compare the rapid lightnings with such blazing arrows.

Went abroad - They moved rapidly in all directions.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 77:17. The clouds poured out water — It appears from this that there was a violent tempest at the time of the passage of the Red Sea. There was a violent storm of thunder, lightning, and rain. These three things are distinctly marked here.

1. "The skies sent out a sound:" the THUNDER.

2. "Thine arrows went abroad:" the LIGHTNING.

3. "The clouds poured out water:" the RAIN. In the next verse we have,

4. An EARTHQUAKE: "The earth trembled and shook," Psalms 77:18.