Psalm 78:16 {77:16}
Good News Translation
He caused a stream to come out of the rock and made water flow like a river.

New Revised Standard Version
He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

Contemporary English Version
He made streams gush out like rivers from rocks.

New American Bible
He made streams flow from crags, caused rivers of water to flow down.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

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

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,

Deuteronomy 9:21 And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took, and burned it with fire, and breaking it into pieces, until it was as small as dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh down from the mountain.

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
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.17And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.…
Cross References
Numbers 20:8
Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink.

Numbers 20:10
And having gathered together the multitude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you forth water out of this rock?

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,

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?

Isaiah 43:19
Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

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.

Habakkuk 3:9
Thou wilt surely take up thy bow: according to the oaths which thou hast spoken to the tribes. Thou wilt divide the rivers of the earth.

Psalm 78:15
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