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Psalm 18:15
Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
13The LORD also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
14He sent out his arrows, and scattered them. He routed them with great lightning bolts.
15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
17He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
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The world's foundations lie exposed at God's rebuke, a fearsome picture in David's song of rescue that can unsettle small ideas of God's power.
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Psalm 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.God's rebuke exposes watery depths in both passages; Psalm 106 names the Red Sea and the path through it.
Psalm 104:7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.God's rebuke changes the scene in both passages: Psalm 18 describes exposed foundations, while Psalm 104 describes flight.
Exodus 15:8With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.Both describe waters responding to the blast of God's nostrils, with hidden depths exposed or waters standing in a heap.
Psalm 91:15He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.Psalm 18 sets God's overwhelming power within David's rescue; Psalm 91 promises God's presence and deliverance in trouble.
Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.Both use God's breath and its blast as images of fearsome power; Job's verse describes people perishing.
Micah 6:2Hear, you mountains, the LORD’s indictment, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a case against his people, and he will contend with …The earth's foundations appear in both passages, exposed at God's rebuke in Psalm 18 and summoned to hear his indictment in Micah.
Psalm 76:6At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.God's rebuke has overwhelming force in both passages, exposing the world's foundations in one and bringing horse and chariot to stillness in the other.
Jeremiah 31:37The LORD says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel …Both mention the earth's foundations: Psalm 18 pictures them laid bare, while Jeremiah uses searching them out as a condition concerning Israel.
Joshua 3:13–16It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of GOD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the …Both portray waters yielding to God's authority; Joshua names the Jordan and describes its flow being cut off.
2 Samuel 22:16Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the LORD’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.Both describe channels appearing and the world's foundations laid bare at the LORD's rebuke and the blast of his breath.
Ezekiel 21:31I will pour out my indignation on you. I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath. I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.Both use blowing breath to depict God's fierce action; Ezekiel directs that image toward wrath and destruction.
2 Samuel 22:9Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.Both depict God's fearsome power through the image of his nostrils, with breath in Psalm 18 and smoke in Samuel.
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The God whose rebuke exposes the world's foundations reaches down to draw David from the waters; his might serves the rescue of someone outmatched by enemies.
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