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16 Then the bed of the sea appeared;
    the world’s foundations lay bare,(A)
At your rebuke, O Lord,
    at the storming breath of your nostrils.

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[a]The sea saw and fled;
    the Jordan turned back.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 114:3–4 Pairs of cosmic elements such as sea and rivers, mountains and hills, are sometimes mentioned in creation accounts. Personified here as warriors, the pairs tremble in fear before the Divine Warrior. The quaking also recalls the divine appearance in the storm at Sinai (Ex 19:16–19) and elsewhere (Jgs 5:4–5; Ps 18:7–15).

He roars at the sea and leaves it dry,
    and all the rivers he dries up.
Laid low are Bashan and Carmel,
    and the bloom of Lebanon withers;[a]

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  1. 1:4 Bashan, Carmel, and Lebanon were famous for their mountainous terrain and lush forests.