Psalms114

Psalm 114 celebrates God's mighty acts during Israel's exodus from Egypt, a land of strange language. It recounts how the sea and Jordan fled, and mountains trembled, all in response to the divine presence. The psalm concludes by commanding the earth to tremble before the Lord, who can turn rock into water.

God Leads Israel from Egypt

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When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of Iaakob from the barbarous people,
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Iudah was his sanctification, and Israel his dominion.

Nature Reacts to God's Presence

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The Sea sawe it and fled: Iorden was turned backe.
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The mountaines leaped like rams, and the hils as lambes.

Rhetorical Interrogation of Creation

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What ailed thee, O Sea, that thou fleddest? O Iorden, why wast thou turned backe?
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Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rams, and ye hils as lambes?

The Lord's Presence Demands Awe

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The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Iaakob,
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Which turneth the rocke into waterpooles, and the flint into a fountaine of water.
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