시편 Chapter 114

Translation: ESV

1

When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

Key Message

God's salvation rescues his own people transcending cultural and linguistic barriers.

▸Psalm 114 is a short but powerful psalm depicting the Exodus event poetically.

Psalm 114 is a short but powerful psalm depicting the Exodus event poetically. 'A people of strange language' emphasizes how foreign Israel was within Egypt's alien culture. The Exodus was a salvation that occurred amid linguistic and cultural alienation.

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Say therefore to the people of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
3

The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.

Key Message

The natural world also submits before God's saving history; God transcends the natural order.

▸The miracles of the Red Sea and the Jordan River parting before Israel are expressed through personification.

7

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Key Message

All creation must respond with awe before the presence of God.

▸The psalm commands the earth itself to tremble before God.

8

who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

Key Message

God is the one who brings forth the water of life even from the most impossible situations.

▸This recalls the miracle of God striking the rock to bring forth water in the wilderness (Num.