Nehemiah 9:11
Good News Translation
Through the sea you made a path for your people and led them through on dry ground. Those who pursued them drowned in deep water, as a stone sinks in the raging sea.

New Revised Standard Version
And you divided the sea before them, so that they passed through the sea on dry land, but you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.

Contemporary English Version
You divided the deep sea, and your people walked through on dry land. But you tossed their enemies in, and they sank down like a heavy stone.

New American Bible
The sea you divided before them, on dry ground they passed through the midst of the sea; Their pursuers you hurled into the depths, like a stone into the mighty waters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

divide

Exodus 14:21,22,27,28 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. . . .

Psalm 66:6 Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him.

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

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

Psalm 136:13-15 Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

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? . . .

their persecutors

Exodus 15:1-21 Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea. . . .

Psalm 106:9-11 And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness. . . .

Hebrews 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up.

as a stone

Exodus 15:5,10 The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone. . . .

Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence as this, shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down and shall be found no more at all.

Context
The People Confess Their Sins
10And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at this day. 11And 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.12And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:1
For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.

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.

Exodus 14:27
And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves.

Exodus 15:1
Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.

Exodus 15:5
The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

Nehemiah 9:10
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