Psalm 77:19
 Psalm 77:19 
New International Version (©2011)
Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters--a pathway no one knew was there!

English Standard Version (©2001)
Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Your way was in the sea And Your paths in the mighty waters, And Your footprints may not be known.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Your way went through the sea and Your path through the great waters, but Your footprints were unseen.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Your way was through the sea, and your path through mighty waters, but your footprints cannot be traced.

NET Bible (©2006)
You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Your path is in the sea and your steps in the many waters, neither are your footprints known.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Your road went through the sea. Your path went through raging water, but your footprints could not be seen.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Your way is in the sea, and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.

American King James Version
Your way is in the sea, and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.

American Standard Version
Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.

Darby Bible Translation
Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths are in the great waters; and thy footsteps are not known.

English Revised Version
Thy way was in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footsteps were not known.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

World English Bible
Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Young's Literal Translation
In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

77:11-20 The remembrance of the works of God, will be a powerful remedy against distrust of his promise and goodness; for he is God, and changes not. God's way is in the sanctuary. We are sure that God is holy in all his works. God's ways are like the deep waters, which cannot be fathomed; like the way of a ship, which cannot be tracked. God brought Israel out of Egypt. This was typical of the great redemption to be wrought out in the fulness of time, both by price and power. If we have harboured doubtful thoughts, we should, without delay, turn our minds to meditate on that God, who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, that with him, he might freely give us all things.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 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.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thy way is in the sea,.... In the sea of Suph, as the Targum, the Red sea; it was the Lord that made the way in the sea for the Israelites, and went before them, and led them through it:

and thy path in the great waters; because the word rendered path is written with yod, and is in the plural number, though the Masorites observe, that that letter is redundant, and so the word is singular; hence the Jews imagine there were more paths than one, even twelve, according to the number of the tribes, and which they think is intimated in Psalm 136:13,

and thy footsteps are not known; not by the Egyptians, who assayed to follow after the people of Israel with the Lord at the head of them, nor by any since; for the waters returned and covered the place on which the Israelites went as on dry ground; so that no footsteps or traces were to be seen at all ever since; and such are the ways God, many of them in providence as well as in grace, Romans 11:33, it may be rendered "thy heels", which made the footsteps or impressions; which latter being the works of God, may be seen and known, but not the former, he being invisible; so Gussetius (e) observes.

(e) Comment. Ebr. p. 633.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. waters … , footsteps—may refer to His actual leading the people through the sea, though also expressing the mysteries of providence.


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In Distress, I Sought the Lord
18The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightning lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19Your way is in the sea, and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known. 20You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
Psalm 36:6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.
Isaiah 43:16 This is what the LORD says-- he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,
Isaiah 51:10 Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over?
Daniel 4:3 How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; his dominion endures from generation to generation.
Habakkuk 3:15 You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the great waters.