3 The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;
3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
3 The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.
3 Sea took one look and ran the other way; River Jordan turned around and ran off.
3 The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back.
3 The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away.
9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.
9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry, and he led them through the deep as through a desert.
9 He rebuked the Red Sea so that it dried up on the spot - he paraded them right through! - no one so much as got wet feet!
9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; So He led them through the depths, As through the wilderness.
9 He commanded the Red Sea to dry up. He led Israel across the sea as if it were a desert.
(Read Psalm 106:6-12)
Here begins a confession of sin; for we must acknowledge that the Lord has done right, and we have done wickedly. We are encouraged to hope that though justly corrected, yet we shall not be utterly forsaken. God's afflicted people own themselves guilty before him. God is distrusted because his favours are not remembered. If he did not save us for his own name's sake, and to the praise of his power and grace, we should all perish.
13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
13 to him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever;
13 Split the Red Sea right in half, His love never quits.
13 To Him who divided the Red Sea in two, For His mercy endures forever;
13 Give thanks to him who parted the Red Sea. His faithful love endures forever.
(Read Psalm 136:10-22)
The great things God did for Israel, when he brought them out of Egypt, were mercies which endured long to them; and our redemption by Christ, which was typified thereby, endures for ever. It is good to enter into the history of God's favours, and in each to observe, and own, that his mercy endureth for ever. He put them in possession of a good land; it was a figure of the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 114:3
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An exhortation to fear God.
Let us acknowledge God's power and goodness in what he did for Israel, applying it to that much greater work of wonder, our redemption by Christ; and encourage ourselves and others to trust in God in the greatest straits. When Christ comes for the salvation of his people , he redeems them from the power of sin and Satan, separates them from an ungodly world, forms them to be his people, and becomes their King. There is no sea, no Jordan, so deep, so broad, but, when God's time is come, it shall be divided and driven back. Apply this to the planting the Christian church in the world. What ailed Satan and his idolatries, that they trembled as they did? But especially apply it to the work of grace in the heart. What turns the stream in a regenerate soul? What affects the lusts and corruptions, that they fly back; that prejudices are removed, and the whole man becomes new? It is at the presence of God's Spirit. At the presence of the Lord, not only mountains, but the earth itself may well tremble, since it has lain under a curse for man's sin. As the Israelites were protected, so they were provided for by miracles; such was that fountain of waters into which the flinty rock was turned, and that rock was Christ. The Son of God, the Rock of ages, gave himself to death, to open a fountain to wash away sins, and to supply believers with waters of life and consolation; and they need not fear that any blessing is too great to expect from his love. But let sinners fear before their just and holy Judge. Let us now prepare to meet our God, that we may have boldness before him at his coming.