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
2. The proper response to God’s deliverance 114:7-8The writer instructed the earth to continue to tremble before the Lord. Here he used the earth to refer to people living on the earth. This is only fitting in view of God’s awesome power that works for the welfare of His own.Everyone should reverence the Lord, as His inanimate creation does, because He uses His great power to save and to provide for His people. Remembering His deliverance and provision should move us to fear Him. read more
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
(7) Tremble.—Literally, be in travail. This answer to his question is introduced with consummate art. Well may the mountains tremble, when it is the Lord of all the earth, the God of Jacob, who is present. Notice that till now the mention of the Divine power which wrought the deliverance was kept in suspense. read more
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
Psalms 114:1-8It is possible that in this psalm Israel, restored from Babylon, is looking back to the earlier Exodus, and shrilling with the great thought that that old past lives again in the present. Such a historical parallel would minister courage and hope. But the eyes of psalmists were ever turning to the great days when a nation was born, and there are no data in this psalm which connect it with a special period, except certain peculiarities in the form of the words "turns" and... read more
Psalm 114-117 Psalms 114:0 Retrospect As in the book of Deuteronomy God’s ways with His people are reviewed so we find in some of these Psalms the reminders of God’s dealing with Israel in the past. Here it is first of all the deliverance out of Egypt and what happened then, the type of the greater deliverance effected by the power of God. (See Jeremiah 16:14-15 .) read more
114:7 Tremble, thou {d} earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;(d) Ought then his people to be insensible when they see his power and majesty? read more
114:8 Which {e} turned the rock [into] a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.(e) That is, miraculously caused water to come out of the rock in great abundance, Exodus 17:6. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 114:8
5-8. The questions place the implied answers in a more striking form. read more