Psalms 114:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? ”

Psalms 114:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest?... - literally, “What to thee, O sea,” etc. That is, What influenced thee - what alarmed thee - what put thee into such fear, and caused such cons...
Psalms 114:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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.
Psalms 114:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

What. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
Psalms 114:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5 What ailed thee, O sea! The prophet interrogates the sea, Jordan, and the mountains, in a familiar and poetical strain, as lately he ascribed to them a sense and reverence for God’s power....
Psalms 114:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? What ailed thee, O thou sea - The original is very abrupt; and the prosopopoeia, or personification very...
Psalms 114:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountain...
Psalms 114:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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....
Psalms 114:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Psalms 114:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 114:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 114:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The sacred writer is here triumphing in the grace and sovereignty of God, and demands by what power it was that the laws of nature should be so changed, in producing such wonders in creation? Moses s...
Psalms 114:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest ?.... What was the matter with thee? what appeared to thee? what didst thou see? what didst thou feel, which caused thee to flee in such haste? Thou...
Psalms 114:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, [that] thou wast driven back? Ver. 5. What ailed thee, O thou sea? ] Or, what came to thee? can there any natural reason be given, o...
Psalms 114:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 114:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Deliverance of Israel Celebrated. 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange lang...
Psalms 114:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

What was the cause of this unusual motion? Such speeches directed to senseless creatures are very frequent, both in Scripture and in other authors, and especially in poetical writings, such as this i...
Psalms 114:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 114:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Psalms 114:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 114:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Psalms 114:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Psalms 114:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Psalms 114:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 3:8 ; Jeremiah 47:6 ; Jeremiah 47:7

Psalms 114:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 114:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 114:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 114:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 114:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 114:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 114:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 114:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 114:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 114:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 114:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 114:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 114:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 114:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 114:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 114:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 114:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 114:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 114:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 114:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 114:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 114:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 114:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge