Psalms 114:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

When Israel went out. — LXX., in the Exodus of Israel.”

A people of strange language. — LXX., rightly, “a barbarous people.” Since the Hebrew word, like the Greek, implies a certain scorn or ridicule, which ancient races generally had for those speaking another language. To this day the Russians call the Germans “dumb.”

Psalms 114:1

1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;