Psalm 78:15 {77:15}
Good News Translation
He split rocks open in the desert and gave them water from the depths.

New Revised Standard Version
He split rocks open in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.

Contemporary English Version
God made water flow from rocks he split open in the desert, and his people drank freely, as though from a lake.

New American Bible
He split rocks in the desert, gave water to drink, abundant as the deeps of the sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

Psalm 105:41 He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.

Psalm 114:8 Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters.

Exodus 17:6 Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb, and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:

Numbers 20:11 And when Moses bad lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank,

Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters.

Isaiah 43:20 The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the ostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen.

John 7:37,38 And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)

Revelation 22:1,17 And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. . . .

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
14And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire. 15He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.16He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:4
And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)

Exodus 17:6
Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb, and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:

Numbers 20:11
And when Moses bad lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank,

Deuteronomy 8:15
And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the hardest rock,

Psalm 18:2
The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 74:15
Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.

Psalm 78:20
Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people?

Psalm 105:41
He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.

Psalm 114:8
Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters.

Isaiah 48:21
They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he brought forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the waters gushed out.

Psalm 78:14
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