Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little 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
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? What ailed ye, that ye were thus moved? There is but one reply: the majesty of God made you to leap. A gracious mind will chide human nature for its strange insensibility, when the sea and the river, the mountains and the hills, are all sensitive to the presence of God.
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