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Selected Verse: Psalms 78:53 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 78:53 |
King James |
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not - In hope; in confidence; so that they had no occasion for alarm. He showed himself able and willing to defend them.
But the sea overwhelmed their enemies - Margin, as in Hebrew, covered. See Exo 14:27-28; Exo 15:10. |
10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
27 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.