Psalms 77:16
He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et eduxit aquam de petra, et deduxit tamquam flumina aquas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξήγαγεν ὕδωρ ἐκ πέτρας, καὶ κατήγαγεν ὡς ποταμοὺς ὕδατα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:16
- וַיּוֹצִ֣א נוֹזְלִ֣ים מִסָּ֑לַע וַיּ֖וֹרֶד כַּנְּהָר֣וֹת מָֽיִם
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
11. For He that “did burst asunder the sea and made them go through, did confine the waters as it were in bottles” ( ver. 13 ), in order that the water might stand up first as if it were shut in, is able by His grace to restrain the flowing and ebbing tides of carnal desires, when we renounce this world, so that all sins having been thoroughly washed away, as if they were enemies, the people of the faithful may be made to pass through by means of the Sacrament of Baptism. He that “led them home in the cloud of the day, and in the whole of the night in the illumination of fire” ( ver. …