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<p id="Chapter114" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 114
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<p id="Ps114_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',114,'1-8');">Psa 114:1-8</a>.
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<p>The writer briefly and beautifully celebrates God's former care of His people, to whose benefit nature was miraculously made to contribute.
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<p><b>1-4. of strange language</b>—(compare <a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Psa',81,5);">Psa 81:5</a>).
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<p id="Ps114_4"><b>4. skipped...rams</b>— (<a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Psa',29,6);">Psa 29:6</a>), describes the waving of mountain forests, poetically representing the <i>motion</i> of the mountains. The poetical description of the effect of God's presence on the sea and Jordan alludes to the history (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',14,21);">Exd 14:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jos',3,'14-17');">Jos 3:14-17</a>). <i>Judah</i> is put as a parallel to <i>Israel,</i> because of the destined, as well as real, prominence of that tribe.
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<p id="Ps114_5"><b>5-8.</b> The questions place the implied answers in a more striking form.
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<p id="Ps114_7"><b>7. at the presence of</b>—literally, "from before," as if affrighted by the wonderful display of God's power. Well may such a God be trusted, and great should be His praise.
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