Isaiah 43:16
Good News Translation
Long ago the LORD made a road through the sea, a path through the swirling waters.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,

Contemporary English Version
I am the one who cut a path through the mighty ocean.

New American Bible
Thus says the LORD, who opens a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.

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Isaiah 43:2 When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:

Isaiah 11:15,16 And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their shoes. . . .

Isaiah 51:10,15 Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty deep, who madest the depth of the sea a way, that the delivered might pass over? . . .

Isaiah 63:11-13 And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his Holy One? . . .

Exodus 14:16,21,29 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go through the midst of the sea on dry ground. . . .

Joshua 3:13-16 And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap. . . .

Nehemiah 9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.

Psalm 74:13,14 Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters. . . .

Psalm 77:19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.

Psalm 78:13 He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

Psalm 106:9 And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.

Psalm 114:3-5 The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. . . .

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.

Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.

Context
God's Mercy
15I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. 16Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.17Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are extinct.…
Cross References
Exodus 14:21
And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.

Exodus 14:22
And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left.

Psalm 77:19
Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.

Isaiah 11:15
And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their shoes.

Isaiah 44:27
Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.

Isaiah 50:2
Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.

Isaiah 51:10
Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty deep, who madest the depth of the sea a way, that the delivered might pass over?

Isaiah 63:11
And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his Holy One?

Isaiah 63:12
He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name.

Isaiah 43:15
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