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God's Power In Verses 3-6

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This psalm emphasizes both God’s power displayed in Verses 3-6, and His provision supplied Verse 8. The God of Israel’s deliverance in Verses 1-2, is still their God as established in Verse 7, the implication being that He can still display His power. This psalm is the one most explicitly related to the Exodus. In Verses 1 and 2, it depicts God inhabiting Israel. In Verse 1, it states "When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;" The people of Israel in a body, was drove out. Though urged by the Egyptians to go, through the hand of God upon them. And so went out with the mighty hand and outstretched arm of the Lord, and with great riches, and in great health."The house of Jacob from a people of strange …show more content…

In Verse 3, it states "The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back." “The sea … Jordan”: Two miracles of God, God parted the Red Sea and later parted the Jordan River. The water bowed to the presence of God in both instances. In Verse 4, it states "The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs." “Mountains … hills” refers to the violent appearance of God to Israel at Sinai. This is speaking of the mountain quaking at the presence of God. Verses 5-6, God questioned why the most fixed of geographical features, such as water and mountains, could not resist His power and will. In Verse 5, it states "What thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, [that] thou wast driven back?" There was no explaining to the human understanding why the Red Sea opened at the command of God. The sea, like all other creation must bow to its Creator. There was no unusual phenomenon to explain away this miracle of God. In Verse 6, it states "Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams; [and] ye little hills, like lambs?" Not for joy, but fear. What caused these trembling motions, and moving to and fro, like the skipping of rams? "And ye little hills, like lambs? What was it that disturbed you, that you skipped like frightened lambs? These questions are put, by a beautiful and poetical figure, to inanimate

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