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16The waters saw{H8804)} thee, O God, the waters saw{H8804)} thee; they were afraid{H8799)}: the depths also were troubled{H8799)}.

Psalms 77:16

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

  • Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

  • And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water,(for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) …

  • The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. …

  • Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-20)

The psalmist here recovers himself out of the great distress and plague he was in, and silences his own fears of God’s casting off his people by the remembrance of the great things he had done for them formerly, which though he had in vain tried to quiet himself with ( Ps. 77:5 , 6 ) yet he tried again, and, upon this second trial, found it not in vain. It is good to persevere in the proper means…

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