诗篇 114:1-8 RCUVSS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 114:1-8

The psalmist is here remembering the days of old, the years of the right hand of the Most High, and the wonders which their fathers told them of (Jdg. 6:13), for time, as it does not wear out the guilt of sin, so it should not wear out the sense of mercy. Let it never be forgotten, I. That God brought Israel out of the house of bondage with a high hand and a stretched-out arm: Israel went out of Egypt, Ps. 114:1. They did not steal out clandestinely, nor were they driven out, but fairly went... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:1

When Israel went out of Egypt ,.... The people of Israel in a body, publicly, openly, and not by stealth; freely and willingly, not forced and drove out; though urged by the Egyptians to go, through the hand of God upon them; and so went out with the mighty hand and outstretched arm of the Lord, and with great riches, and in health, not one feeble or sick among them. The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; or barbarous; as every language was reckoned by the Jews but their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:2

Judah was his sanctuary ,.... Meaning not the tribe of Judah only, though that in many things had the preeminence; the kingdom belonging to it, the chief ruler being out of it, especially the Messiah; its standard was pitched and moved first; it offered first to the service of the Lord; and the Jews have a tradition, mentioned by Jarchi and Kimchi, that this tribe, with its prince at the head of it, went into the Red sea first; the others fearing, but afterwards followed, encouraged by their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:3

The sea saw it, and fled ,.... When the Word of the Lord appeared at it, as the Targum in the king's Bible; the Red sea, to which the Israelites came when they went out of Egypt; this saw that Judah was the Lord's holy and peculiar people, and that Israel were the subjects of his kingdom; it saw the presence of the Lord among them; it saw him in the glory of his perfections, and felt his power; see Psalm 77:16 , at which its waters fled and parted, and stood up as a wall to make way for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:4

The mountains skipped like rams ,.... The mountains of Sinai and Horeb quaked and moved at the presence of the Lord, when he descended thereon to give the law; these saw his glory and trembled, Exodus 19:18 . And the little hills like lambs ; very beautiful are the larger mountains of Sinai and Horeb compared to rams, and the motion of them to their skipping; and the little hills adjacent to them to lambs: these may represent the greater and lesser governors in the Roman empire at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:5

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest ?.... What was the matter with thee? what appeared to thee? what didst thou see? what didst thou feel, which caused thee to flee in such haste? Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back ? what is the meaning that thou didst not continue to flow as usual? what was it that stopped thy flowing tide? that cut off thy waters? that drove them back as fast or faster than they came? read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:6

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams ,.... Not for joy, but fear; what caused these trembling motions, these violent agitations, and quakings, and movings to and fro like the skipping of rams? And ye little hills, like lambs ? what was it that disturbed you, and put you into a panic, that you skipped like frightened lambs? These questions are put, by a beautiful and poetical figure, to inanimate creatures; the Red sea, the river of Jordan, the mountains of Sinai and Horeb, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:7

Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord ,.... Or, "the earth has trembled at the presence of the Lord"; so the Syriac and Arabic versions render it; the imperative is sometimes put for the preterite or past tense, see Psalm 22:9 , likewise the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions thus render it, "the earth is moved at the presence of the Lord"; and then the sense is by a prosopopoeia. Is it to be wondered at, that we, the sea, the river of Jordan, the mountains and hills, have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:8

Which turned the rock into a standing water ,.... Both at Rephidim and at Kadesh; which being smitten, streams of water flowed out like rivers, as if the rock itself was changed into water; and which came a constant and continual supply for the Israelites, for it is said to follow them; see Exodus 17:6 . The flint into a fountain of waters ; referring to the same thing, the rocks were flinty ones. This was a type of Christ the Rock; who has an abiding fulness of grace in him; is the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:1

A people of strange language - This may mean no more than a barbarous people; a people whom they did not know, and who did not worship their God. But it is a fact that the language of the Egyptians in the time of Joseph was so different from that of the Hebrews that they could not understand each other. See Psalm 81:5 ; Genesis 42:23 . The Chaldee has here ברבראי מעמי meammey barbarey , which gives reason to believe that the word is Chaldee, or more properly Phoenician. See this... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 114:1-8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 114:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 114:1

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