The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
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
The mountains trembled before their Maker while men fear the mountains. Rams and lambs spring lightly in the field, yet the eternal hills moved as readily when Jehovah marched by. Nothing is immovable but God Himself; His covenant abides when mountains depart and hills are removed. Mountains of sin and hills of trouble flee when the Lord comes forth to lead His people home.
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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