Nehemiah 9:11
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And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
In other translations
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
Hebrew words
וְהַיָּםvehaiyamand the seaH3220בָּקַעְתָּbaka'tayou split openH1234לִפְנֵיהֶםlifneihem<to> before themH6440וַיַּעַבְרוּvaiya'avruand they passedH5674בְתוֹךְ־vetokh-in [the] middle ofH8432הַיָּםhaiyamthe seaH3220בַּיַּבָּשָׁהbaiyabashahon the dry groundH3004וְאֶת־ve'etand <obj.>H853רֹדְפֵיהֶםrodefeihempursuers theirH7291הִשְׁלַכְתָּhishlakhtayou threwH7993בִמְצוֹלֹתvimtzolotin [the] depthsH4688כְּמוֹ־kemov-likeH3644אֶבֶן'evena stoneH68בְּמַיִםbemayimin watersH4325עַזִּים׃'azimmightyH5794
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Related verses
- Psalm 78:13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
- Exodus 14:21-2221 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. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided, 22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
- Exodus 14:27-2827 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea. 28 The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
- Psalm 106:9-119 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. 10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. 11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert. 10 He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. 11 The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.
- Hebrews 11:29By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.
- Psalm 136:13-1513 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever: 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.13 He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever. 14 and led Israel through the midst, His loving devotion endures forever. 15 but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Isaiah 63:11-1311 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? 12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?11 Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them, 12 who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown, 13 who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?
- Psalm 114:3-53 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?3 The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back; 4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5 Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
- Psalm 66:6He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
- Revelation 18:21And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.
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