When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
This psalm holds before us the exodus, that deliverance by which God proved His power and grace in a way no age should forget. The whole design was that Abraham's seed might yield themselves wholly to God, becoming His holy and peculiar people, set apart for His service alone.
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Commenting on Psalm 114:1-8
When Israel went out of Egypt. The song begins with a burst, as if the poetic fury could not be restrained, but overleaped all bounds. The soul elevated and filled with a sense of divine glory cannot wait to fashion a preface, but springs at once into the middle of its theme.
Israel went out with honor, not stealing away but marching forth from those who spoke a strange tongue. God brought them out to serve Him in holiness and righteousness; He set His sanctuary among them and made Himself their lawgiver and judge, establishing a theocracy where the Lord alone was King.
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Commenting on Psalm 114:1-8