Psalms Chapter 77 verse 19 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 77:19

Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.
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BBE Psalms 77:19

Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.
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DARBY Psalms 77:19

Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths are in the great waters; and thy footsteps are not known.
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KJV Psalms 77:19

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
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WBT Psalms 77:19

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
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WEB Psalms 77:19

Your way was through the sea; Your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
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YLT Psalms 77:19

In the sea `is' Thy way, And Thy paths `are' in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Thy way is in the sea; rather, was in the sea. Thou wentest, i.e., in person before thy people in their passage across the dry bed of the Red Sea; truly there, though invisible (comp. Exodus 15:13; Psalm 78:52, 53; Psalm 106:9; Isaiah 63:13). And thy path in the great waters; literally, thy paths. So the Revised Version. And thy footsteps are not known; rather, were not. No one perceived thy presence, much less discerned thy footsteps. As in external nature and in the human heart, God worked secretly.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Are not known.--"We know not, they knew not, by what precise means the deliverance was wrought; we know not by what precise track through the gulf the passage was effected. We know not; we need not know. The obscuring, the mystery, here as elsewhere, was part of the lesson. . . . All that we see distinctly is, that through this dark and terrible night, with the enemy pressing close behind, and the driving sea on either side, He led His people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron" (Stanley, Jewish Church, i. 128).To some minds the abruptness of the conclusion of the psalm marks it as unfinished. But no better end could have been reached in the poet's perplexity than that to which he has been led by his musings on the past, the thought of the religious aids ready to his hand, in the faith and worship left by Moses and Aaron. We are reminded of him who recalled the thoughts of the young man, searching for a higher ideal of duty, back to the law and obedience. Or if the psalm is rather an expression of the feeling of the community than of an individual, there is a pointed significance in the conclusion given to all the national cries of doubt and despair--the one safe course was to remain loyal and true to the ancient institutions.