Psalms 114
114
The Lord’s Wonders at the Exodus
1When Israel came forth from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from an alien people,
2Judah became God’s sanctuary,
Israel, God’s domain.#Ex 19:6.
3#Pairs of cosmic elements such as sea and rivers, mountains and hills, are sometimes mentioned in creation accounts. Personified here as warriors, the pairs tremble in fear before the Divine Warrior. The quaking also recalls the divine appearance in the storm at Sinai (Ex 19:16–19) and elsewhere (Jgs 5:4–5; Ps 18:7–15).The sea saw and fled;
the Jordan turned back.#Ps 66:6; 74:15; Ex 14:21f; Jos 3:14ff.
4The mountains skipped like rams;
the hills, like lambs.#Ps 29:6; Wis 19:9.
5Why was it, sea, that you fled?
Jordan, that you turned back?
6Mountains, that you skipped like rams?
You hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, earth, before the Lord,#Ps 68:9.
before the God of Jacob,
8#The miracles of giving drink to the people in the arid desert, cf. Ex 17:1–7; Is 41:17–18.Who turned the rock into pools of water,
flint into a flowing spring.#Ex 17:6; Nm 20:11.
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Psalm 114
114
Tremble at the Presence of the Lord
1When #Ex. 12:37 Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from #Ps. 81:5; [Gen. 42:23]a people of strange language,
2Judah became his #Ps. 78:68, 69; [Ex. 15:17; 25:8]sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.
3 # See Ps. 77:16 The sea looked and fled;
# See Josh. 3:13-16 Jordan turned back.
4 # [Ps. 18:7; 29:6; Ex. 19:18] The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
5What #[Hab. 3:8]ails you, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
6O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?
7 #
Ps. 96:9
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8who turns #Num. 20:11; See Ps. 78:15 the rock into #See Ps. 107:35 a pool of water,
#
Deut. 8:15
the flint into a spring of water.
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