An exhortation, by the example of the dumb creatures, to fear God in his church.
BISHOP PATRICK supposes, that as the foregoing psalm recites some instances of divine providence to particular people, so this makes a brief narration of some miraculous works of that providence, which respected the whole Jewish nation, and which are very elegantly expressed.
Psalms 114:1. From a people of strange language— Or, according to the original, a barbarous people; such as the Jews esteemed all other nations: though the original word properly signifies only a stranger, or alien.