Chapter Text
114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
114:2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
114:3 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
114:5 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
114:6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?
114:7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
114:8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "israel", "went", "egypt", "house", "jacob", "people", "foreign", 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 WEB 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.