Isaiah 43:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,”
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“Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving in the sea a way, And in the strong waters a path.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 43:16 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 14:16And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
- Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
- Exodus 14:29But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
- Joshua 3:13When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”
- Nehemiah 9:11You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
- Psalms 74:13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
- Psalms 77:19Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
- Psalms 77:20You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Psalms 78:13He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
- Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
- Psalms 114:3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
- Psalms 136:13He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
- Isaiah 11:15The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
- Isaiah 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
- Isaiah 51:10Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
- Isaiah 51:15For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of Hosts is His name.
- Isaiah 63:11Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
- Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
- Revelation 16:12And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
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