Psalms 77:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a beautiful and sublime manner of expression is here, in the waters seeing God. The prophet hath a similar thought: Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers? Was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? Habakkuk 3:8. The Reader will, no doubt, perceive that both these references are to one and the same subject, Israel's deliverance from Egypt through the Red Sea. But what a flood of glory pours in upon the subject, when we read in that solemn transaction the fullest representation of our everlasting deliverance from all the Pharaohs of hell and destruction, through the red sea of Christ's blood! Here Jesus made a way indeed for his indeed to pass over, when he went forth for the salvation of his people. Hebrews 3:13; Isaiah 51:9-11. The clouds pouring out water, the skies sending out a sound, the thunders and the lightnings accompanying God's deliverance of his people from Egypt, and through the wilderness, their history fully explains: Exodus 14:19, etc. But the gospel sense of these passages comes home with a tenfold beauty and strength to the believer's heart, when he marks, through the whole of it, Jesus vanquishing all the powers of hell, destroying Satan, and bringing in an everlasting victory in the sea of glass, that all his redeemed might sing the song of Moses and of the Lamb; Revelation 15:2-4. Surely in the contemplation of this subject every redeemed heart will join the beautiful and pious language of the man of God, and acknowledge that, though the ways of God are dark and hidden, like his paths in the sea, yet Jesus hath led, and Jesus doth lead, and Jesus will lead his people, whom he hath saved from their sins, and bring them home to himself as his glorious flock, the jewels of his redemption-crown, to himself and the Father in glory forever.