Psalms 114

Ps 114:1-8.

The writer briefly and beautifully celebrates God's former care of His

people, to whose benefit nature was miraculously made to

contribute.

1-4. of strange language--(compare

Ps 81:5).

4. skipped . . . rams--

(Ps 29:6),

describes the waving of mountain forests, poetically representing the

motion of the mountains. The poetical description of the effect

of God's presence on the sea and Jordan alludes to the history

(Ex 14:21;

Jos 3:14-17).

Judah is put as a parallel to Israel, because of the

destined, as well as real, prominence of that tribe.

5-8. The questions place the implied answers in a more striking form.

7. at the presence of--literally, "from before," as if affrighted by

the wonderful display of God's power. Well may such a God be trusted,

and great should be His praise.