“ The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. ”
The sea saw it - The word it is supplied, not very properly, by our translators. It would be more expressive to say, “The sea saw:” that is, The sea - (the Red Sea) - saw the mighty movement - th...
CXIV. The marvels on the way from Egypt to Zion, the future sanctuary of Yahweh, and to Canaan as Israel's possession. A Passover hymn.
The sea. Compare Exodus 14:21 . Jordan. Compare Joshua 3:13 .
3 The sea saw, and fled He does not enumerate in succession all the miracles which were wrought at that time, but briefly alludes to the sea, which, though a lifeless and senseless element,...
The sea saw it , and fled: Jordan was driven back. The sea saw it, and fled - Mr. Addison has properly observed (see Spect. No. 461) that the author of this Psalm designedly works for effect, in poi...
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The sea saw (it), and fled - ( Exodus 14:21 .) Jordan was driven back - ( Joshua 3:13-16 .) The sea and the rivers are the emblem of the...
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....
Fled. — The Authorised Version weakens the effect by rendering “it was driven back.” (See Joshua 3:16 .) The scene presented is of the “descending stream” (the words employed seem to have a specia...
Psalms 114:1-8 It 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 pr...
the Mighty God Uplifteth the Lowly Psalms 113:1-9 ; Psalms 114:1-8 We detect the song of Samuel's mother in the first of these psalms. She sang the Old Testament “Magnificat” and it was embalm...
This is the second psalm in the Hallel. The first set forth the might and mercy of Jehovah. This is pre-eminently a song of His might, and so the name of God is used. If however it sings of His might...
The Red Sea, and Jordan, both withdrew for Israel. Reader, recollect (for there is a great beauty in the reflection) that forty years intervened between the period of the Red Sea retiring, and that o...
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...
The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back. Ver. 3. The sea saw it, and fled ] When God will deliver his people, and perform his promises unto them, nothing shall hinder, but all creatures...
The sea saw it, and fled Saw that God was present with and among them in an extraordinary manner, and therefore fled; for nothing could have been more awful. Jordan is driven back At the appear...
The Deliverance of Israel Celebrated. 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange lang...
Saw it, to wit, this glorious work of God in bringing his people out of Egypt.
INTRODUCTION Date and Authorship unknown; ascribed to the three Hebrew children, Esther and Mordscai. BONDAGE AND DELIVERANCE ( Psalms 114:1 ) I. The bondage was degrading . “Israel,” “Egypt...
Psalms 114:1-19 . When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven...
This is another hallelujah psalm, praising the Lord for deliverance from Egypt for calling the Hebrews to holiness for dividing the sea, and driving Jordan back for making the mountains skip like lam...
When Israel went out of Egypt. The workings of the Eternal will God has a will. He doeth all things after the “counsel of His own will.” The universe is but His will in form and action. It is t...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of reminiscence, designed to encourage the exiles on their return from Babylon, during their "day of small things" ( Zechariah 4:10 ; comp. Ezra 3:12 ). If God had done so...
The God of Jacob the Deliverer out of Egypt. A majestic song celebrating the care of God for His people at the time of the exodus from Egypt, when all the powers of nature were called to contribut...
Exodus 14:21 ; Exodus 15:8 ; Habakkuk 3:15 ; Habakkuk 3:8 ; Habakkuk 3:9 ; Isaiah 63:12 ; Joshua 3:13-16 ; Psalms 10:1 ; Psalms 74:15 ; Psalms 77:16