The (c) mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs.
(c) Seeing that these dead creatures felt God's power and after a sort saw it, much more his people ought to consider it, and glorify him for the same.
THE MOUNTAINS SKIPPED LIKE RAMS - As flocks in their gambols. They seemed to move from place to place; everything seemed to be unsettled, and acknowledged the presence of the Omnipotent One. The word...
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....
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...
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. THE MOUNTAINS (NAMELY, SINAI) SKIPPED LIKE RAMS, AND THE LITTLE HILLS LIKE LAMBS - (). The fact alluded to is (cf. ;...
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...
SKIPPED] i.e. trembled: cp. Sinai, Exodus 19:18....
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...
SKIPPED. — The Hebrew word thus rendered is translated “dance” in Ecclesiastes 3:4. (See Psalms 18:7.) Exodus 19:18 was no doubt in the poet’s thought, but the leaping of the hills formed part of ever...
הֶֽ֭ הָרִים רָקְד֣וּ כְ אֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָעֹ֗ות...
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,...
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...
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 MOUNTAINS SKIPPED LIKE RAMS,.... The mountains of Sinai and Horeb quaked and moved at the presence of the Lord, when he descended thereon to give the law; these saw his glory and trembled, Exodus...
The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs. Ver. 4. _The mountains skipped like rams_] _sc._ At the giving of the law, Exodus 19:18, which also causeth heartquakes in believer...
_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 mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs, the reference being to the quaking of Mount Sinai and the surrounding country at the time of the giving of the Law....
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...
Horeb and Sinai, two tops of one mountain, and other neighbouring hills or mountains. Compare EXODUS 19:18 PSALMS 68:8 HABAKKUK 3:6,10....
Psalms 114:4 mountains H2022 skipped H7540 (H8804) rams H352 hills H1389 lambs H1121 H6629 (Enoch) = G30
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
2 Peter 3:7; Exodus 19:18; Exodus 20:18; Habakkuk 3:6; Habakkuk 3:8;...
The mountains — Horeb and Sinai, two tops of one mountain, and other neighbouring mountains....