Psalm 114:3 NLT

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 114:3

The sea saw it - The word it is supplied, not very properly, by our translators. It would be more expressive to say, “The sea saw:” that is, The sea - (the Red Sea) - saw the mighty movement - the marshalled hosts - the moving masses - the cattle - the pursuing enemies - the commotion - the agitation - on its usually quiet shores. We are to conceive of the usual calmness of the desert - the waste and lonely solitudes on the banks of the Red Sea - and then all this suddenly broken in upon by... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 114:3-6

Psalms 114:3-6. The sea saw it, and fled Saw that God was present with and among them in an extraordinary manner, and therefore fled; for nothing could have been more awful. Jordan is driven back At the appearance of the divine glory which conducted them. “Although forty years intervened between the two events here mentioned, yet, as the miracles were of the same nature, they are spoken of together.” The mountains skipped like rams Horeb and Sinai, two tops of one mountain, and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:1-8

Psalms 113-114 When hope seems gonePsalms 113:0 to 118 form a collection called the Hallel. Israelites sang the Hallel at various annual festivals, the most important of which was the Passover. They sang Psalms 113:0 and 114 before eating the meal, and Psalms 115:0 to 118 after (cf. Matthew 26:30).From east to west, now and for ever, God is worthy to be worshipped by those who serve him (113:1-4). Although he is enthroned in the highest place, he is concerned about his creatures on earth (5-6).... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 114:3

The sea. Compare Exodus 14:21 . Jordan. Compare Joshua 3:13 . read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 114:1-4

When God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, He dwelt among them and ruled over them. The names Judah and Israel are in poetic parallelism here and refer to the same group, namely, the nation of Israel. Judah was its leading tribe.The writer personified the Red Sea as seeing the Israelites coming and fleeing from them by parting its waters. Later when the Israelites entered the Promised Land, the Jordan River backed up as far as the town of Adam, farther north in the Jordan Valley, to let them... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 114:1-6

1. God’s deliverance at the Exodus 114:1-6 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 114:1-8

Psalms 114As mentioned previously, the Israelites sang this song at Passover. This was appropriate since it describes God delivering the nation in the Exodus, which event has cosmic implications. It is another psalm of descriptive praise. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:1-8

This has been called ’one of the finest lyrics in literature.’ Probably it is a post-exilic psalm wherein, under the figure of the old exodus from Egypt, the Psalmist chants the return from Babylon. In all ages of the Church it has been used to celebrate the release from the bondage of sin. Hence it is a hymn for Easter night.1. Strange language] i.e. unintelligible speech—foreign. 2. Was] RV ’became.’3. Saw it] i.e. the presence of God. The allusion is to the dividing of the Red Sea and of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 114:3

(3) Fled.—The Authorised Version weakens the effect by rendering “it was driven back.” (See Joshua 3:16.) The scene presented is of the “descending stream” (the words employed seem to have a special reference to that peculiar and most significant name of the “Jordan”) not parted asunder, as we generally fancy, but, as the psalm expresses it, “turned backwards” (Stanley, Jewish Church, i. 229). read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 114:1-8

The Response of the Environment Psalms 114:1 ; Psalms 114:4 I. It is said that man is affected by his environment. It is true; but it is equally true that man's environment is affected by him. We are influenced by the sights and sounds around us; but it is no less certain that the sights and sounds around us are influenced by us. In this passage we have an incident of the latter kind. When Israel went out of Egypt there was a change in her environment. 'The mountains skipped.' She transferred... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 114:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 114:3-6

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:1-8

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 114:3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 114:1-4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 114:1-6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 114:1-8

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:1-8

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 114:3

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 114:1-8

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