Psalm 114:1-8
“When Israel went out
of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his
dominion.” (Psalm 114:1-2)
When the children of Israel left Egypt, they were leaving a
place where they were forced to speak a language other than their native
tongue. The land of Judah, the southern
part of the Land of Israel was their sanctuary, their place of safety and
worship. The entire land of Israel was
their kingdom.
“The sea saw it, and
fled: Jordan was driven back. The
mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.” (Psalm 114:3-4)
When they came to Red Sea, it separated so that Israel
passed over on dry ground. When they came
to the Jordan River, the water stopped and began to pile up on the north side
as if there was a dam. When God came down on Mount Sinai, the whole
mountain quaked greatly, according to Exodus 19:18, shaking the foot hills
around it. It is a picturesque
description the Psalmist uses.
“What ailed thee, O
thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and
ye little hills, like lambs?” (Psalm 114:5-6)
The sea normally does not separate and leave bare ground exposed,
nor does a river normally stop flowing and allow the downstream side to run
dry. Mountains and hills rarely shake or bounce
around. The Psalmist asks what happened
to cause those things ? they were abnormal events.
“Tremble, thou earth,
at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; Which turned
the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.” (Psalm 114:7)*
It was the power and presence of God that made the earth
tremble shaking the mountains and hills.
It was God’s power that turned a rock into a spring or artesian well
gushing out enough water to satisfy millions of people, making it look like the
rock was just a large tank full of water.
Only God’s miraculous power could cause these things to happen.
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