1.
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2.
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
Judah — Or Israel, one tribe being put for all. Judah he mentions as the chief of all the tribes.
3.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
The mountains — Horeb and Sinai, two tops of one mountain, and other neighbouring mountains.
5.
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
6.
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
7.
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Tremble — The mountains did more than what was fit at the appearance of the great God.
8.
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.