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Ps 77:16 King James The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The waters saw thee ... - The waters of the Red Sea and the Jordan. There is great sublimity in this expression; in representing the waters as conscious of the presence of God, and as fleeing in consternation at his presence. Compare Rev 20:11; Hab 3:10-11.

They were afraid - On the word used here - חול chûl - see Psa 10:5, note; Psa 55:4, note. It may mean here to tremble or quake, as in pain Deu 2:25; Joe 2:6. - Alarm, distress, anguish, came over the waters at the presence of God; and they trembled, and fled.

The depths also were troubled - The deep waters, or the waters "in" the depths. It was not a ripple on the surface; but the very depths - the usually calm and undisturbed waters that lie below the surface - were heaved into commotion at the divine presence.
 
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6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.