Psalm 78:15
New International Version
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASB 1995
He split the rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

NASB 1977
He split the rocks in the wilderness, And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

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

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

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He breached the flint in the wilderness and gave them drink as from the great depths.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

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.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He split rocks in the desert. He gave them plenty to drink, an ocean of water.

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

International Standard Version
He caused the rocks to split in the wilderness, and gave them water as from an abundant sea.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.

Literal Standard Version
He cleaves rocks in a wilderness, | And gives drink—as the great deep.

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

New American Bible
He split rocks in the desert, gave water to drink, abundant as the deeps of the sea.

NET Bible
He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

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

New Heart English Bible
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.

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

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

Additional Translations ...
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Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night. 15He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas. 16He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:4
and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Numbers 20:11
Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.

Deuteronomy 8:15
He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

Psalm 18:2
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 74:15
You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Psalm 78:20
When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?"


Treasury of Scripture

He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

Psalm 105:41
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

Psalm 114:8
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














(15) And gave . . .--Literally, and gave them to drink as it were a great deep, or as we might say, "oceans of drink"--a poetical exaggeration; or are we rather to think of the gift of water as produced by striking or boring through the rock to the great ocean on which the earth was supposed to rest?

Verses 15, 16. - He clave the rocks in the wilderness; rather, he clave rocks. The word has no article. The reference is probably to both Exodus 17:6 and Numbers 20:8-11. And gave them drink as out of the great depths; rather, "and gave them drink abundantly, as out of the depths" (so Cheyne and the Revised Version). On the abundance of the water, see Numbers 20:11, and compare the next verse: He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He split
יְבַקַּ֣ע (yə·ḇaq·qa‘)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1234: To cleave, to rend, break, rip, open

the rocks
צֻ֭רִים (ṣu·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6697: A cliff, a rock, boulder, a refuge, an edge

in the wilderness
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (bam·miḏ·bār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

and gave [them] drink
וַ֝יַּ֗שְׁקְ (way·yašq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8248: To quaff, to irrigate, furnish a, potion to

as abundant
רַבָּֽה׃ (rab·bāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

as the seas.
כִּתְהֹמ֥וֹת (kiṯ·hō·mō·wṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep


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