Psaume 78:16

16 De la pierre il fit sortir des ruisseaux; il fit descendre les eaux comme des rivières.

Psaume 78:16 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:16

He brought streams also out of the rock
Which is expressed in the singular number, as also in ( Psalms 78:20 ) , because the children of Israel were not come to Kadesh, and the second rock was not smitten when they lusted after flesh, and murmured against God, and tempted him, as is after related:

and caused waters to run down like rivers;
from the descent of the rock, which followed them all the way in the wilderness; this was a most marvellous thing, that water should flow from a flinty rock upon striking it, from whence fire rather than water might have been expected; and that it should flow in such great abundance, and that from a rock in a wilderness.

Psaume 78:16 In-Context

14 Et il les conduisit, le jour par la nuée, et toute la nuit par la clarté du feu.
15 Il fendit les rochers au désert, et les abreuva comme à flots abondants.
16 De la pierre il fit sortir des ruisseaux; il fit descendre les eaux comme des rivières.
17 Mais ils continuèrent à pécher contre lui, se rebellant contre le Très-Haut dans le désert.
18 Ils tentèrent Dieu dans leur cœur, demandant des mets selon leur désir.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.