Keluaran 14:21

14:21 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the Lord drove the sea apart ¹  by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.

Mazmur 77:17

77:17 The clouds poured down rain; ² 

the skies thundered. ³ 

Yes, your arrows ⁴  flashed about.

[14:21]  ¹ tn Or “drove the sea back” (NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV). The verb is simply the Hiphil of הָלַךְ (halakh, “to walk, go”). The context requires that it be interpreted along the lines of “go back, go apart.”

[77:17]  ² tn Heb “water.”

[77:17]  ³ tn Heb “a sound the clouds gave.”

[77:17]  ⁴ tn The lightning accompanying the storm is portrayed as the Lord’s “arrows” (see v. 18).