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15 You opened up springs and torrents,
    brought dry land out of the primeval waters.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 74:15 Waters: lit., “rivers” (cf. Ps 24:7; Isa 50:2) upon which, or from which, in primordial times the earth is created.

15 It was you who opened up springs(A) and streams;
    you dried up(B) the ever-flowing rivers.

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[a]The sea saw and fled;
    the Jordan turned back.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 114:3–4 Pairs of cosmic elements such as sea and rivers, mountains and hills, are sometimes mentioned in creation accounts. Personified here as warriors, the pairs tremble in fear before the Divine Warrior. The quaking also recalls the divine appearance in the storm at Sinai (Ex 19:16–19) and elsewhere (Jgs 5:4–5; Ps 18:7–15).

The sea looked and fled,(A)
    the Jordan turned back;(B)

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21 (A)Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind all night long and turned the sea into dry ground. The waters were split,

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21 Then Moses stretched out his hand(A) over the sea,(B) and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind(C) and turned it into dry land.(D) The waters were divided,(E)

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The Crossing Begun. 14 The people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan, with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

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14 So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant(A) went ahead(B) of them.

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27 I say to the deep, Be dry!
    I will dry up your rivers.(A)

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27 who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry,
    and I will dry up(A) your streams,’

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Why was no one there when I came?
    Why did no one answer when I called?[a]
Is my hand too short to ransom?
    Have I not the strength to deliver?
See, with my rebuke I dry up the sea,
    I turn rivers into wilderness;
Their fish rot for lack of water,
    and die of thirst.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 50:2 Israel’s faith in God is weak; the people do not answer God’s call, nor believe promises of deliverance.

When I came, why was there no one?
    When I called, why was there no one to answer?(A)
Was my arm too short(B) to deliver you?
    Do I lack the strength(C) to rescue you?
By a mere rebuke(D) I dry up the sea,(E)
    I turn rivers into a desert;(F)
their fish rot for lack of water
    and die of thirst.

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