Psalms 114

If God did not sometimes bring his people into trouble, how would his power be seen in bringing them out? He brought Israel out of the House of Bondage, with miracle upon miracle, he saved them with an outstretched arm (Psalm 114:5): What ailed you, O you sea, etc. It is spoken…

Augustine (Manual, chapter 22): All my hope is in the death of my Lord. His death is my merit: my merit is the passion of the Lord. I shall not be void of merits, so long as God's mercies are not wanting. Basil on Psalm 114: Eternal rest is reserved for them, which have striven…

Habakkuk 3:8: Was the Lord displeased against the rivers, was your wrath against the sea, that you did ride upon your horses, and chariots of salvation? No, but he made those creatures the horses and chariots to speed assistance and salvation to his people, which the Psalmist el…

The words Judah, and Israel, are sometimes opposed, Judah signifying the kingdom of the two tribes, Judah and Benjamin: and Israel signifying the ten tribes. Sometimes again, they are synonyms and are put one for another, as (Psalm 114:1-2), and in this text. And Judah at this t…

His meaning is then, that God's hand shall be so sensibly felt and perceived in this work, that not only men but wild beasts also should be touched with a sense of it, so as they should yield a kind of honor and thanks to God. This prophecy therefore answers to Psalm 114:3-4, wh…

For by his commandment the waters parted in two to give his people passage (Exodus 14:21). And Jordan fled back (Joshua 3:16; Psalm 114:5), so as the fishes being destitute of water, died and rotted. Verse 3. I clothe the heavens with darkness, and make a sack their covering.

These are similitudes then by which he shows that all creatures are at God's command, and are ready to employ themselves to set forward his work: yes and rejoice to do it. He alludes to the deliverance out of Egypt, according to the custom of the Prophets: for so it is written i…

The people being to enter into Canaan, the Lord divides the waters of that river, making them beneath to sink away, and those above to stand on a heap. This the Prophet magnifies (Psalm 114:5): What ails you O Jordan that you were driven back? What marvelous, powerful disturbing…

Thus it is requisite that God's graces should not be idle in his children, but set on work by afflictions, whereby they may be known in due time and place. How did God play the lion with Hezekiah, who (as with paws and teeth) bruised and crushed his bones; not that we may accuse…

1. Earnest expectation, groaning, travailing together in pain, are more naturally applicable to the rational, than the inanimate [and brutal] "creation." If this prove anything, it will prove too much: it will prove, that when in Psalm 114, it is said The sea saw it and fled; Jo…

Yet they hear Christ's language; they speak: Yonder stands our Creator boasting us, and therefore we will obey (Isaiah 50:2). Hear himself speak: Behold, at my rebuke, I dry up the sea (Psalm 114). There is a question put upon the creatures, that they can well answer: verse 5, W…