Chapter Text
114:1 When Israel went out from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
114:2 Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion.
114:3 The sea looked and fled; The Jordan turned back.
114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, The hills, like lambs.
114:5 What disturbs you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
114:6 O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?
114:7 Tremble, O earth, before the Lord, Before the God of Jacob,
114:8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a spring of water.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "israel", "went", "egypt", "house", "jacob", "people", "strange", and "language". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "israel" and "went", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The local LSB text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "israel" and "went" carries the first interpretive weight. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "israel" and "went" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.