The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
The sea saw (it), and fled - (.)
Jordan was driven back - (.) The sea and the rivers are the emblem of the overwhelming world-powers (notes, Psalms 93:1; ).
Verse Psalms 114:3. _THE SEA SAW_ IT, _AND FLED_] Mr. Addison has properly observed (see Spect. No. 461) that the author of this Psalm designedly works for effect, in pointing out the miraculous driv...
THE SEA SAW IT - The word it is supplied, not very properly, by our translators. It would be more expressive to say, “The sea saw:” that is, The sea - (the Red Sea) - saw the mighty movement - the mar...
PSALM 114-117 Psalms 114 Retrospect As in the book of Deuteronomy God's ways with His people are reviewed so we find in some of these Psalms the reminders of God's dealing with Israel in the past....
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....
THE SEA. Compare Exodus 14:21. JORDAN. Compare Joshua 3:13....
PSALMS 114 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Passover Song. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 114:1-2, The Deliverance out of Egypt set forth as the Basis of Jehovah's Worship and Reign in Israel. Stanza II., Psalms 11...
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. I...
SAW _it_] i.e. the presence of God. The allusion is to the dividing of the Red Sea and of Jordan, the opening and closing events of the deliverance from Egypt....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ SEAS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS AND HILLS OBEY GOD! PSALMS 114 Jesus said, "If you have *faith as small as a (very small) seed, (this is what you can do). You will say...
FLED. — The Authorised Version weakens the effect by rendering “it was driven back.” (See Joshua 3:16.) The scene presented is of the “descending stream” (the words employed seem to have a special ref...
הַ יָּ֣ם רָ֭אָה וַ יָּנֹ֑ס הַ֝ יַּרְדֵּ֗ן
Psalms 114:1 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 present....
THE MIGHTY GOD UPLIFTETH THE LOWLY Psalms 113:1; Psalms 114:1 We detect the song of Samuel's mother in the first of these psalms. She sang the Old Testament “Magnificat” and it was embalmed by the ps...
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,...
Sorrows. Hebrew, "bands." --- Perils. Hebrew, "the straitness of the grave, (Calmet) the fortifications of hell." (St. Jerome) (Haydock) --- I am like one buried after the manner of the Egyptians, who...
The Red Sea, and Jordan, both withdrew for Israel. Reader, recollect (for there is a great beauty in the reflection) that forty years intervened between the period of the Red Sea retiring, and that of...
3_The sea saw, and fled _He does not enumerate in succession all the miracles which were wrought at that time, but briefly alludes to the sea, which, though a lifeless and senseless element, is yet st...
Psalms 114 is of the highest style of poetry, but is important to us as directly connecting the ancient deliverance of Israel out of Egypt with the present deliverance of the people, and seeing the sa...
THE SEA SAW IT, AND FLED,.... When the Word of the Lord appeared at it, as the Targum in the king's Bible; the Red sea, to which the Israelites came when they went out of Egypt; this saw that Judah wa...
The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back. Ver. 3. _The sea saw it, and fled_] When God will deliver his people, and perform his promises unto them, nothing shall hinder, but all creatures s...
_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 appeara...
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 contribute f...
The sea saw it and fled, the Red sea opening up before the people, Exodus 14:21; JORDAN WAS DRIVEN BACK, Joshua 3:13;...
SAW IT, to wit, this glorious work of God in bringing his people out of Egypt....
Psalms 114:3 sea H3220 saw H7200 (H8804) fled H5127 (H8799) Jordan H3383 turned H5437 (H8735) back...
Psalms 114:1. 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 back. T...
CONTENTS: The deliverance of Israel out of Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: He who made the hills and the mountains to skip, can when He pleases dissipate the strength and spirit of the...
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 lamb...
_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 the...
_The sea saw it, and fled._ THE REMOVAL OF OBSTACLES I. Antagonisms are quelled. Wherever the Church has advanced-- 1. Sin and Satan have receded. Where it has not been so the Church is to blame. T...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 114:1. This hymn of praise celebrates the special status of Israel in God’s plan. All of nature obeys the Lord, and yet he has chosen little Israel to be his own. He exerts...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 114:3 God parted the Red SEA (Exodus 14:21) and later the JORDAN River ...
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”. The d...
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 much for the...
Now Psalms 114:1-8 is a little psalm that calls the deliverance of the... recalls the deliverance of the children of Israel out of the bondage of Egypt. When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of...
Exodus 14:21; Exodus 15:8; Habakkuk 3:15; Habakkuk 3:8; Habakkuk 3:9;...