Psalms 78:13

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He deuided the sea and let them go thorowe: he made the waters to stande as on an heape.

Darby Translation
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a 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.

Literal Translation
He divided the sea and passed them through; and He caused the waters to stand in a heap.

Easy-to-Read Version
He split the Red Sea and led the people across. The water stood like a solid wall on both sides of them.

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

King James Version (1611)
Hee diuided the Sea, and caused them to passe through: and he made the waters to stand as an heape.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Maruelous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers in the londe of Egipte, euen in the felde of Zoan.

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.

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

Bible in Basic English
The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

Update Bible Version
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to 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.

New English Translation
He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
He split the sea and made them pass through, he made the waters stand up like a wall.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He deuided the Sea, & led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.

George Lamsa Translation
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as in skins.

Hebrew Names Version
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; He made the waters stand as a heap.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand as a heap.

New Life Bible
He divided the sea and made them pass through it. He made the water stand up like a wall.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as in a bottle.

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

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

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through, And reared up the waters like a mound;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-13) He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

Lexham English Bible
He split the sea and caused them to go over, and he caused waters to stand like a heap.

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

New Century Version
He divided the Red Sea and led them through. He made the water stand up like a wall.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He brak the see, and ledde hem thorou; and he ordeynede the watris as in a bouge.

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁹ The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned their backs and fled on the day of battle. ¹⁰ They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his instructions. ¹¹ They forgot what he had done— the great wonders he had shown them, ¹² the miracles he did for their ancestors on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt. ¹³ For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls! ¹⁴ In the daytime he led them by a cloud, and all night by a pillar of fire. ¹⁵ He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring. ¹⁶ He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river! ¹⁷ Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. ¹⁸ They stubbornly tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He divided: Psalms 66:6, Psalms 106:9, Psalms 106:10, Psalms 136:13-15, Exodus 14:1 - Exodus 15:27, Isaiah 63:13, 1 Corinthians 10:2, 1 Corinthians 10:3

made: Psalms 38:7, Joshua 3:16, Habakkuk 3:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:21 - the Lord Exodus 14:22 - the children Exodus 15:8 - the floods Deuteronomy 11:3 - General Deuteronomy 26:8 - the Lord Joshua 3:13 - stand upon Joshua 4:23 - which he dried Joshua 24:6 - Egyptians Nehemiah 9:10 - showedst Nehemiah 9:11 - divide Psalms 74:13 - divide Psalms 136:14 - pass through Isaiah 43:16 - maketh Isaiah 63:12 - dividing Jeremiah 31:35 - which divideth Acts 7:36 - after Acts 13:17 - and with 1 Corinthians 10:1 - and all Hebrews 11:29 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He divided the sea,.... The Targum adds,

"by the rod of Moses their master;''

which he was ordered to lift up, and to stretch out his hand over the sea; which he did, and at the same time a strong east wind was raised, which caused the sea to go back, and divided the waters of it; see

Exodus 14:16

and caused them to pass through; that is, he caused the Israelites to pass through the sea; this they did in faith, Hebrews 11:29, in the faith of the power and promise of God, and of future grace and blessings, which this was an emblem of; for it was a representation of baptism, and is so called, 1 Corinthians 10:1 and of the sea of Christ's blood, or of his sufferings and death; whereby all enemies are overcome and destroyed, as sin and Satan, signified by the Egyptians, and salvation is wrought, and every blessing of grace procured; and of the passage of God's people through the sea of this world, and afflictions in it, safe to glory:

and he made the waters to stand as an heap; and were as a wall on the right hand and on the left hand so they continued until the Israelites had passed through; and then they returned, and covered the Egyptians, and drowned them, Exodus 14:22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He divided the sea ... - The Red Sea. Exodus 14:21-22.

And he made the waters to stand as an heap - The word rendered “heap” means anything piled up, or a mound; and the idea is, that the waters were piled up on each side of them as a “mound.” See the notes at Psalms 33:7. Compare Joshua 3:13, Joshua 3:16; Exodus 15:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:13. He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through — The reader is requested to consult the notes on the parallel passages marked in the margin on this verse and Psalms 78:14-17, &c., where all these miracles are largely explained.