Later text
Psalm 114:3BSB
The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
Intertextuality Pair
Psalm 114:3 → Deuteronomy 8:15
Echo
Earlier text
He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
Significance
Deuteronomy 8:15 recalls God leading Israel through "the vast and terrifying wilderness" and bringing "water from the rock of flint" (מִצּוּר הַחַלָּמִישׁ, mitzur hachallamish). Psalm 114:3 celebrates the same exodus events in hymnic form: "The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back." Both texts recall God's miraculous provision during the exodus journey, but Psalm 114 transforms Deuteronomy's historical narration into cosmic poetry—even nature responds to God's presence. The wilderness miracles Moses recounts to instill humility and gratitude become in the psalmist's hands a summons for all creation to tremble before the God who shatters rock into water springs.
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- Reference Type
- Echo
- Connection Method(s)
- Redemptive-Historical Progression — the wilderness leading and water-from-flint of Deuteronomy 8:15 stand behind Psalm 114's hymnic recital of the exodus journey ("The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back"), Moses's didactic history transposed into cosmic praise as later worship carries the redemption-story forward — the same God before whose presence creation trembles bringing His people all the way to their rest in Christ.
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