Psalms 78:15

New Living Translation

He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
He was splitting the rocks in the wildernessAnd so gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He split the rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He cloued the harde rockes in the wildernes: & gaue them drinke therof, as it had ben out of the great deepe waters.

Darby Translation
He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;

New King James Version
He split the rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink in abundance like the depths.

Literal Translation
He split the rocks in the wilderness and made them drink, as from great floods.

Easy-to-Read Version
He split the rocks in the desert and gave them an ocean of fresh water.

World English Bible
He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

King James Version (1611)
Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes.

King James Version
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the daye tyme he led them with a cloude, and all the night thorow with a light of fyre.

Amplified Bible
He split rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant [water to] drink like the ocean depths.

American Standard Version
He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Bible in Basic English
The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

Update Bible Version
He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Webster's Bible Translation
He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.

New English Translation
He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

Contemporary English Version
God made water flow from rocks he split open in the desert, and his people drank freely, as though from a lake.

Complete Jewish Bible
He broke apart the rocks in the desert and let them drink as if from boundless depths;

Geneva Bible (1587)
He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.

George Lamsa Translation
He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of great depths.

Hebrew Names Version
He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.

New Life Bible
He broke the rocks in the desert, and gave them water as if it flowed from the sea.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

English Revised Version
He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Berean Standard Bible
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

New Revised Standard
He split rocks open in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He used to cleave rocks in the desert, And let them drink as out of mighty deeps;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-15) He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

Lexham English Bible
He caused rocks to split in the wilderness and provided drink abundantly as from the depths.

English Standard Version
He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.

New American Standard Bible
He split the rocks in the wilderness And gave them plenty to drink like the ocean depths.

New Century Version
He split the rocks in the desert and gave them more than enough water, as if from the deep ocean.

Good News Translation
He split rocks open in the desert and gave them water from the depths.

Christian Standard Bible®
He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He brak a stoon in deseert; and he yaf watir to hem as in a myche depthe.

Young's Literal Translation
He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink -- as the great deep.

Revised Standard Version
He cleft rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.

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

Psalms 105:41, Psalms 114:8, Exodus 17:6, Numbers 20:11, Isaiah 41:18, Isaiah 43:20, John 7:37, John 7:38, 1 Corinthians 10:4, Revelation 22:1, Revelation 22:17

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:8 - bring forth Deuteronomy 8:15 - who brought 1 Kings 17:6 - the ravens 2 Kings 3:20 - filled Isaiah 35:6 - for Isaiah 44:3 - floods Isaiah 48:21 - he caused Habakkuk 3:9 - Thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He clave the rocks in the wilderness,.... The one at Rephidim, Exodus 17:1, and the other at Kadesh, Numbers 20:1 both to be seen at this day; Numbers 20:1- :,

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Numbers 20:1- :, though of the latter no modern traveller makes mention but one, yet Jerom b from Eusebius affirms that it was shown in his day: they were typical of Christ, 1 Corinthians 10:4, who is frequently compared to one for height, strength, and duration, shade, shelter, and protection; and is called the Rock of Israel, the Rock of offence to both houses of Israel, the Rock of salvation, the Rock of refuge, the Rock of strength, the Rock that is higher than the saints, and on which the church is built, and who is the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. The cleaving of the rocks is ascribed to God, which was done by the hands of Moses; and so the Targum adds,

"by the rod of Moses their master;''

but Moses was only the instrument, it was the Lord that did it; Moses with his rod could never have done it, had not the power of God went along with it. This smiting and cleaving the rocks were an emblem of the sufferings of Christ, who was smitten of God with the rod of justice, according to the law of Moses, in a judicial way, for the sins of his people, and in order to obtain salvation for them:

and gave them drink as out of the great depths; such a large quantity of water flowed out of the rocks when smitten, as if it came out of the great sea, which furnished them with drink sufficient, and more than enough for them and their cattle; this was typical of the large abundance of grace, and the blessings of it, which flow freely and plentifully from Christ and his fulness, and through his sufferings and death.

b De loc. Heb. fol. 93. L.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He clave the rocks in the wilderness - There were two occasions on which the rock was smitten for water; one Exodus 17:6 at Mount Horeb, shortly after they came out of Egypt; and the other Numbers 20:11, when they had nearly ceased their wanderings in the wilderness. Hence, the plural term (rocks) is used here.

And gave them drink as out of the great depths - As if he had formed a lake or an ocean, furnishing an inexhaustible supply.