Psalm 114:5 {113:5}
Good News Translation
What happened, Sea, to make you run away? And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?

New Revised Standard Version
Why is it, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

Contemporary English Version
Ask the sea why it ran away or ask the Jordan why it flowed upstream.

New American Bible
Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?

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What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?

Jeremiah 47:6,7 O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. . . .

Habakkuk 3:8 Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath upon the rivers? or thy indignation in the sea? Who will ride upon thy horses: and thy chariots are salvation.

Context
Tremble at the Presence of the LORD
4The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock. 5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?…
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.

Joshua 3:16
The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.

Psalm 114:6
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?

Habakkuk 3:8
Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath upon the rivers? or thy indignation in the sea? Who will ride upon thy horses: and thy chariots are salvation.

Psalm 114:4
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