Psalms 114

Creation Flees Before God

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Overview

Psalm 114 recalls the Exodus as the birth of God's own people and portrays sea, mountains, and earth itself recoiling in awe before the Lord whose sovereign presence parted waters, shook mountains, and drew life-giving water from rock in the wilderness.

Passages

1–2The Exodus as the Birth of God's Holy Nation 3–4Creation Convulsed: Sea and Mountains Flee Before God 5–6The Rhetorical Challenge to Sea and Mountains 7–8The Earth Commanded to Tremble Before the Lord

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Psalms 114

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

²Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

³The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

⁵What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

⁶You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.

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