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Psalms 114
Psalms
Chapter 114
114
1When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.
4The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
5What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?
6Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,
8Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
What is Psalms 114 about?
Turning from the LORD's stooping mercy to His mighty acts, this Hallel psalm recounts the exodus, when Israel came out from a people of strange language and Judah became His sanctuary. The sea flees, the Jordan is driven back, and the mountains skip like rams before the presence of Israel's God, who turns the rock into a pool and the flint into a fountain. Poetic and compact, it summons the whole earth to tremble before the God of Jacob. The redemption remembered at every Passover foreshadows the greater exodus accomplished through the true Passover Lamb.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 114