Psalms 114:1

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Psalms 114:1.-Yahweh owned Israel as His after her departure from Egypt, by driving back the Red Sea and the Jordan; the mountains also were moved (Psalms 114:1); personification: the sea asked why it fled? the answer (Psalms 114:5). God's past mighty deeds for His Church rebuke her unbelieving fears when the world-powers as a sea threaten her destruction. WHEN ISRAEL WENT OUT OF EGYPT, THE HOUSE OF JACOB FROM A PEOPLE OF STRANGE LANGUAGE - even as now they were recently delivered from the Babylonians (aliens in language), to whom, according to Moses' prophecy ...

1_When Israel went out from Egypt _That exodus being a remarkable pledge and symbol of God’s love for the children of Abraham, it is not surprising that it should be so frequently called to remembrance. In the beginning of the psalm, the prophet informs us that the people whom God purchased at so great a price are no more their own. The opinion of certain expositors, that at that time the tribe of Judah was consecrated to the service of God, according to what is said in Exodus 19:6, and 1 Peter 2:9, appears to me foreign to the prophet’s design. All doubt about the matter is removed by what is immediately subjoined, God’s taking Israel under his rule, which is simply a repetition of the same sentiment in other words. Judah being the most powerful and numerous of all the tribes, and occupying the chief place among them, here t

PSALM CXIV _Miracles wrought at the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt,_ _at the Red Sea, and at Jordan_, 1-6; _and at the rock of Horeb_, 7, 8. NOTES ON PSALM CXIV This Psalm has no _title_. The word _Hallelujah_ is prefixed in all the Versions except the _Chaldee_ and _Syriac_. It seems like a fragment, or a part of another Psalm. In many MSS. it is only the _beginning_ of the following; both making but one Psalm in all the Versions, except the _Chaldee_. It is elegantly and energetically composed; but begins and ends very abruptly, if we separate it from the following. As to the _author_ of this Psalm, there have been various opinions; some have given the honour of it to

WHEN ISRAEL WENT OUT OF EGYPT - literally, “In the going out of Israel from Egypt.” This is not to be confined to the exact act of the exodus, but embraces all that properly entered into that migration - the whole train of events which resuited in their being brought into the promised land. THE HOUSE OF JACOB - The family of Jacob - a name appropriately used here, since it was the family of Jacob that had gone down into Egypt, and that had increased to these great numbers. FROM A PEOPLE OF STRANGE LANGUAGE - Speaking a foreign or a barbarian tongue. See the notes at Psalms 81:5....

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 them when he brought them out of Egypt, if such glorious prodigies had marked that epoch, might they not be sure that his hand would be stretched out for them now? Formally, the psalm is more like a modern poem than most. It divides into four stanzas of four lines each, very evenly balanced, and perfect in its metrical arrangement. "The psalm is evidently by a skilled artist" (Cheyne). PSALMS 114:1 WHEN ISRAEL WENT OUT OF EGYPT; literally, at the going

WHEN ISRAEL WENT OUT OF EGYPT,.... The people of Israel in a body, publicly, openly, and not by stealth; freely and willingly, not forced and drove out; though urged by the Egyptians to go, through the hand of God upon them; and so went out with the mighty hand and outstretched arm of the Lord, and with great riches, and in health, not one feeble or sick among them. THE HOUSE OF JACOB FROM A PEOPLE OF STRANGE LANGUAGE; or barbarous; as every language was reckoned by the Jews but their own; the Egyptian language they did not understand; see Psalms 81:5, no doubt many of them learned it during their long stay there, but in general they retained their own language. This was an emblem of the Lord's people in effectual calling, coming out of bondage into liberty, out of darkness into light, out of superstition, and idolatry and profaneness, to the service of the true God in right

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. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs. Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters._ I did not interrupt the reading of the Psalm by any exposition. It is a perfect whole, and could not well be divided without spoiling it. We may admire the poetry as well as the inspiration of this Psalm. It begins with rugged abruptness: «When Israel went out of Egypt.» It only gives jus

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. Here it is first of all the deliverance out of Egypt and what happened then, the type of the greater deliverance effected by the power of God. (See Jeremiah 16:14 .)...

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....

WHEN ISRAEL. Compare Exodus 13:3. EGYPT. Not Babylon. The Psalm not post-exilic. JACOB. See notes on Genesis 32:28; Genesis 43:6; Genesis 46:27; Genesis 46:28....