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Verse Psalms 114:5. _WHAT_ AILED _THEE, O THOU SEA_] The original is
very abrupt; and the _prosopopoeia_, or personification very fine and
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What to thee, O sea, that thou fleddest away!...
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WHAT AILED THEE, O THOU SEA, THAT THOU FLEDDEST?... - literally,
“What to thee, O sea,” etc. That is, What influenced thee - what
alarmed thee - what put thee into such fear, and caused such
consterna...
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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....
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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....
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WHAT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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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...
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What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that
thou wast driven back?
WHAT AILED THEE, O THOU SEA, THAT THOU FLEDDEST? THOU JORDAN, THAT
THOU WAST DRIVEN BACK? YE MOUNTAINS, THA...
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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...
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WHAT _ailed?_] The answer is, the presence of God....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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The sacred writer is here triumphing in the grace and sovereignty of
God, and demands by what power it was that the laws of nature should
be so changed, in producing such wonders in creation? Moses sa...
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5_What ailed thee, O sea! _The prophet interrogates the sea, Jordan,
and the mountains, in a familiar and poetical strain, as lately he
ascribed to them a sense and reverence for God’s power. And, by...
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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...
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WHAT AILED THEE, O THOU SEA, THAT THOU FLEDDEST?.... What was the
matter with thee? what appeared to thee? what didst thou see? what
didst thou feel, which caused thee to flee in such haste?
THOU JOR...
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What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, [that]
thou wast driven back?
Ver. 5. _What ailed thee, O thou sea?_] Or, what came to thee? can
there any natural reason be given, or...
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_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...
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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...
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What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that
thou wast driven back? the reference being to the two events that
marked the beginning and the end of the wilderness journey....
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What was the cause of this unusual motion? Such speeches directed to
senseless creatures are very frequent, both in Scripture and in other
authors, and especially in poetical writings, such as this is...
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Psalms 114:5 sea H3220 fled H5127 (H8799) Jordan H3383 turned H5437
(H8735) back H268...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 114:3 God parted the Red SEA (Exodus 14:21) and
later the JORDAN River ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Habakkuk 3:8; Jeremiah 47:6; Jeremiah 47:7...