Psalms 104:7

World English Bible

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
At your command, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.

English Revised Version
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away;

Update Bible Version
At your rebuke they fled; At the voice of your thunder they hurried away

New Century Version
But at your command, the water rushed away. When you thundered your orders, it hurried away.

New English Translation
Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off—

Webster's Bible Translation
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

Amplified Bible
At Your rebuke they fled; At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

English Standard Version
At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Tho schulen fle fro thi blamyng; men schulen be aferd of the vois of thi thundur.

Berean Standard Bible
At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away-

Contemporary English Version
Then your voice thundered! And the water flowed

American Standard Version
At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away

Bible in Basic English
At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear;

Complete Jewish Bible
At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they rushed away,

Darby Translation
At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away;—

Easy-to-Read Version
But you gave the command, and the water turned back. You shouted at the water, and it rushed away.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
At Thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of Thy thunder they hasted away--

King James Version (1611)
At thy rebuke they fled: at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

New Life Bible
The waters left at Your strong words. They went away in a hurry at the sound of Your thunder.

New Revised Standard
At your rebuke they flee; at the sound of your thunder they take to flight.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But at thy rebuke they flee: at the voyce of thy thunder they haste away.

George Lamsa Translation
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hastened away.

Good News Translation
When you rebuked the waters, they fled; they rushed away when they heard your shout of command.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
At thy rebuke, they flee, At the voice of thy thunder, they hurry away;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(103-7) At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.

Revised Standard Version
At thy rebuke they fled; at the sound of thy thunder they took to flight.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
At thy rebuke they flee: at the noyse of thy thunder they bluster downe apace.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
At thy rebuke they shall flee; at the voice of thy thunder they shall be alarmed.

Christian Standard Bible®
At your rebuke the water fled;at the sound of your thunder they hurried away—

Hebrew Names Version
At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

King James Version
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

Lexham English Bible
At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they ran off.

Literal Translation
From Your rebuke, they flee; from the sound of Your thunder, they hurry away.

Young's Literal Translation
From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But at thy rebuke they fle, at the voyce of thy thonder they are afrayed.

New American Standard Bible
They fled from Your rebuke, At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

New King James Version
At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
At Your rebuke they fled, At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

Legacy Standard Bible
At Your rebuke they fled,At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away in alarm.

Contextual Overview

¹ Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. ² He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. ³ He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. ⁴ He makes his messengers winds; His servants flames of fire. ⁵ He laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved forever. ⁶ You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. ⁷ At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. ⁸ The mountains rose, The valleys sank down, To the place which you had assigned to them. ⁹ You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; That they don't turn again to cover the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

At thy: Genesis 8:1, Proverbs 8:28, Mark 4:39

they fled: Psalms 114:3-7

Reciprocal: Job 12:15 - he sendeth Job 36:29 - the noise Job 37:2 - the noise Psalms 18:13 - thundered Psalms 76:6 - At thy Jeremiah 51:16 - he uttereth Nahum 1:4 - rebuketh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

At thy rebuke they fled,.... The depths of water that covered the earth fled, went off apace, when Christ, the essential Word, gave the word of command that they should; saying, "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so", Genesis 1:9 and this being called a "rebuke", suggests as if there was something amiss, irregular and disorderly, and to be amended; as if these waters were not in their proper place.

At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; ran off with great precipitancy; just as a servant, when his master puts on a stern countenance, and speaks to him in a thundering, menacing manner, hastes away from him to do his will and work. This is an instance of the mighty power of Christ; and by the same power he removed the waters of the deluge; when they covered the earth, and the tops of the highest hills; and rebuked the Red sea, and it became dry land; and drove back the waters of Jordan for the Israelites to pass through; and who also rebuked the sea of Galilee when his disciples were in distress: and with equal ease can he and does he remove the depth of sin and darkness from his people at conversion; rebukes Satan, and delivers out of his temptations, when he comes in like a flood; and rebukes the waters of affliction when they threaten to overwhelm; who are his servants, and come when he bids them come, and go when he bids them go.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

At thy rebuke they fled - At thy command; or when thou didst speak to them. The Hebrew word also implies the notion of “rebuke,” or “reproof,” as if there were some displeasure or dissatisfaction. Proverbs 13:1; Proverbs 17:10; Ecclesiastes 7:5; Isaiah 30:17; Psalms 76:6. It is “as if” God had been displeased that the waters prevented the appearing or the rising of the dry land, and had commanded them to “hasten” to their beds and channels, and no longer to cover the earth. The allusion is to Genesis 1:9, and there is nowhere to be found a more sublime expression than this. Even the command, “And God said, Let there be light; and there was light,” so much commended by Longinus as an instance of sublimity, does not surpass this in grandeur.

At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away - They fled in dismay. The Hebrew word - חפז châphaz - contains the idea of haste, trepidation, consternation, alarm, “as if” they were frightened; Psalms 31:22. God spake in tones of thunder, and they fled. It is impossible to conceive anything more sublime than this.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:7. At thy rebuke they fled — When God separated the waters which were above the firmament from those below, and caused the dry land to appear. He commanded the separation to take place; and the waters, as if instinct with life, hastened to obey.

At the voice of thy thunder — It is very likely God employed the electric fluid as an agent in this separation.