Psalm 74:15
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15 You opened up springs and torrents,
brought dry land out of the primeval waters.[a]
Psalm 114:3
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Footnotes
- 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).
Exodus 14:21
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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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Joshua 3:14
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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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Isaiah 44:27
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27 I say to the deep, Be dry!
I will dry up your rivers.(A)
Isaiah 50:2
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2 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)
Footnotes
- 50:2 Israel’s faith in God is weak; the people do not answer God’s call, nor believe promises of deliverance.
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