Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 114:1

"When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;" — Psalms 114:1 (ASV)

When Israel went out. —LXX., in the Exodus of Israel.

A people of strange language. —LXX., rightly, a barbarous people. Since the Hebrew word, like the Greek, implies a certain scorn or ridicule, which ancient races generally had for those speaking another language. To this day the Russians call the Germans “dumb.”