Salmi 78:16

16 Fece scaturire ruscelli dalla roccia e ne fece scender dell’acque a guisa di fiumi.

Salmi 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.

Salmi 78:16 In-Context

14 Di giorno li guidò con una nuvola, e tutta la notte con una luce di fuoco.

15 Schiantò rupi nel deserto, e li abbeverò copiosamente, come da gorghi.

16 Fece scaturire ruscelli dalla roccia e ne fece scender dell’acque a guisa di fiumi.

17 Ma essi continuarono a peccare contro di lui, a ribellarsi contro l’Altissimo, nel deserto;

18 e tentarono Dio in cuor loro, chiedendo cibo a lor voglia.