Later text
Psalms 114:8BSB
who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
Intertextuality Pair
Psalms 114:8 → Deuteronomy 8:15
Allusion
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
Psalm 114:8 celebrates God "who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water" (הַהֹפְכִי הַצּוּר אֲגַם־מָיִם, hahofkhi hatsur agam-mayim). Deuteronomy 8:15 recalls that God "brought you water out of the flinty rock" (חַלָּמִישׁ, challamish, "flint") in the wilderness. Both texts use the miraculous provision of water from rock as paradigmatic of divine wilderness care, sharing the distinctive vocabulary of צוּר (tsur, "rock") and חַלָּמִישׁ (challamish, "flint"). The psalmist transforms Moses's historical reminder into cosmic praise: God does not merely provide water — He transforms rock into pools, reversing the natural order for His people's sake.
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