诗篇 114:1-8 RCUVSS

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:2

Judah was his sanctuary - He set up his true worship among the Jews, and took them for his peculiar people. And Israel his dominion - These words are a proof, were there none other, that this Psalm was composed after the days of David, and after the division of the tribes, for then the distinction of Israel and Judah took place. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:3

The sea saw it, and fled - Mr. Addison has properly observed (see Spect. No. 461) that the author of this Psalm designedly works for effect, in pointing out the miraculous driving back the Red Sea and the river Jordan, and the commotion of the hills and mountains, without mentioning any agent. At last, when the reader sees the sea rapidly retiring from the shore, Jordan retreating to its source, and the mountains and hills running away like a flock of affrighted sheep, that the passage of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:5

What ailed thee, O thou sea - The original is very abrupt; and the prosopopoeia, or personification very fine and expressive: - What to thee, O sea, that thou fleddest away! O Jordan, that thou didst roll back! Ye mountains, that ye leaped like rams! And ye hills, like the young of the fold! After these very sublime interrogations, God appears; and the psalmist proceeds as if answering his own questions: - At the appearance of the Lord, O earth, thou didst tremble; At the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:8

The flint - I have translated חלמיש challamish , Granite; for such is the rock of Horeb, a piece of which now lies before me. This short and apparently imperfect Psalm, for elegance and sublimity, yields to few in the whole book. It is so well translated in the old Psalter, that I think I shall gratify the reader by laying it before him. Psalm 114:1 ; In gangyng of Isrel oute of Egipt, Of the house of Jacob fra hethen folke. Psalm 114:2 ; Made is Jude his halawyng... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:1

Verse 1 1When Israel went out from Egypt That exodus being a remarkable pledge and symbol of God’s love for the children of Abraham, it is not surprising that it should be so frequently called to remembrance. In the beginning of the psalm, the prophet informs us that the people whom God purchased at so great a price are no more their own. The opinion of certain expositors, that at that time the tribe of Judah was consecrated to the service of God, according to what is said in Exodus 19:6, and 1... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:3

Verse 3 3The sea saw, and fled He does not enumerate in succession all the miracles which were wrought at that time, but briefly alludes to the sea, which, though a lifeless and senseless element, is yet struck with terror at the power of God. Jordan did the same, and the very mountains shook. It is in a poetical strain that the Psalmist describes the receding of the sea and of the Jordan. The description, however, does not exceed the facts of the case. The sea, in rendering such obedience to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:5

Verse 5 5What ailed thee, O sea! The prophet interrogates the sea, Jordan, and the mountains, in a familiar and poetical strain, as lately he ascribed to them a sense and reverence for God’s power. And, by these similitudes, he very sharply reproves the insensibility of those persons, who do not employ the intelligence which God has given them in the contemplation of his works. The appearance which he tells us the sea assumed, is more than sufficient to condemn their blindness. It could not be... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:7

Verse 7 7At the presence of the Lord Having aroused the senses of men by interrogations, he now furnishes a reply, which many understand to be a personification of the earth; because they take י, yod, to be the affix of the verb חולי , chuli; and they represent the earth as saying, It is my duty to tremble at the presence of the Lord. This fanciful interpretation is untenable; for the term, earth, is immediately subjoined. Others, with more propriety, considering the י, yod, in this, as in many... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 114:1

When Israel went out of Egypt ; literally, at the going forth of Israel from Egypt ; ἐν ἐξόδῳ ἰσράηλ , LXX . The "going forth from Egypt" was the only thing parallel in Israelitish history to the going forth from Babylon. The nation should learn what to expect in the future by what occurred in the past. The house of Jacob (compare the more common "house of Israel," Psalms 98:3 ; Psalms 115:12 ; Psalms 135:19 ) from a people of strange language ; literally, from a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 114:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 114:1-8

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