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Creation's Reaction to God
Commentators explain that the psalmist uses powerful poetic language, personifying the Red Sea and the Jordan River. They are depicted as seeing God's presence with His people and fleeing in terror. This vividly portrays how all of creation is subject to and awestruck by the majesty and power of its Creator.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 114:3
18th Century
Theologian
The sea saw it - The word "it" is supplied by our translators, although not very appropriately. It would be more expressive to say, “The sea…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 114:3
19th Century
Bishop
Fled. —The Authorised Version weakens the effect by rendering it was driven back. (See Joshua 3:16.) The scene presented …
John Calvin
On Psalms 114:3
16th Century
Theologian
The sea saw, and fled: He does not recount in order all the miracles that were performed at that time, but briefly alludes to the sea, whi…
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John Gill
On Psalms 114:3
17th Century
Pastor
The sea saw it, and fled
When the Word of the Lord appeared at it, as the Targum in the king's Bible; the Red sea, to which the…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 114:1–8
17th Century
Minister
Let us acknowledge God's power and goodness in what he did for Israel, applying it to that much greater work of wonder, our redemption by Christ; a…