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Psalms 114
The psalm recounts the Exodus as a display of Jehovah's sovereign command over creation: Egypt released Israel, Judah became His sanctuary and the seat of His dominion, the Red Sea parted, the Jordan reversed, and the mountains convulsed at His presence. The rhetorical questions in verses 5–6 personify these elements to underscore that creation has no option but to yield when Jehovah appears. The closing image — flint becoming a fountain — echoes the Horeb rock-strike, a type of living water flowing from the smitten servant, prefiguring the redemptive pattern Christ fulfills.
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When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
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Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
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The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
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The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
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What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
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Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
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Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
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Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
