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Psalm 66:6

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66:6He turned the sea into dry land;8

they passed through the river on foot.9

Let us rejoice in him there!10

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Footnotes

  1. 8 He turned the sea into dry land. The psalmist alludes to Israel’s crossing the Red Sea (Exod 14:21).
  2. 9 Because of the reference to “the river,” some understand this as an allusion to Israel’s crossing the Jordan River. However, the Hebrew term נָהָר (nahad) does not always refer to a “river” in the technical sense; it can be used of sea currents (see Jonah 2:4). So this line may also refer to the Red Sea crossing (cf. ).
  3. 10 The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) is used here, as often in poetic texts, to point “to a spot in which a scene is localized vividly in the imagination” ( 1027 ).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He turned the sea into dry land;

they passed through the river on foot.

There did we rejoice in him,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He turned the sea into dry land,

they passed through the waters on foot—

come, let us rejoice in him.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He turned the sea into dry land,

and they crossed the river on foot.

There we rejoiced in him.

NLTNew Living Translation

He made a dry path through the Red Sea,

and his people went across on foot.

There we rejoiced in him.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

He turned the sea into dry ground;

they passed through the river on foot.

There we rejoiced in him.

KJV 1900King James Version

He turned the sea into dry land:

They went through the flood on foot:

There did we rejoice in him.