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About this chapterA poetic retelling of the exodus in which nature itself reacts to God's presence. When Israel left Egypt, Judah became his sanctuary and Israel his dominion. The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back, the mountains skipped like rams and the hills like lambs. The psalm asks the sea, the river, and the mountains why they reacted this way, then answers that the earth should tremble before the Lord, the God of Jacob, who turns rock into a pool and flint into a spring of water. It is part of the Passover Hallel and celebrates God's power to free his people.

A poetic retelling of the exodus in which nature itself reacts to God's presence. When Israel left Egypt, Judah became his sanctuary and Israel his dominion. The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back, the mountains skipped like rams and the hills like lambs. The psalm asks the sea, the river, and the mountains why they reacted this way, then answers that the earth should tremble before the Lord, the God of Jacob, who turns rock into a pool and flint into a spring of water. It is part of the Passover Hallel and celebrates God's power to free his people.

Themes

  • The exodus remembered
  • Creation trembles before God
  • God's power
  • Passover praise

Key verses

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Psalms 114

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1When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, 2Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel His dominion. 3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back; 4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back, 6O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs? 7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
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