Psalm 114

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1 When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.

3 The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

5 Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8 who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

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Chapter summary

The exodus in eight electric verses.

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The exodus in eight electric verses. 'When Israel went forth out of Egypt… Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.' The sea saw it, and fled; the Jordan was driven back; 'the mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.' Then the question that has no answer but God: 'What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest?' 'Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord… who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.'

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Poetry · David, Asaph, Sons of Korah, others — Psalms overview

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Habakkuk 31 verse
- Habakkuk 3:8Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?
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Exodus 121 verse
- Exodus 12:41At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
- Read Exodus 12 →
Exodus 131 verse
- Exodus 13:3So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
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Genesis 421 verse
- Genesis 42:23They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
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Exodus 151 verse
- Exodus 15:17You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
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Exodus 251 verse
- Exodus 25:8And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
- Read Exodus 25 →
Psalms 781 verse
- Psalms 78:68But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
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Exodus 141 verse
- Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.