Psalms 114 Footnotes

114:5-6 The psalmist used sarcasm, addressing the sea, the Jordan River, and the mountains and hills as though they could respond to his question: Why did you recoil before the Lord’s action in delivering his people? Of course, the natural phenomena personified here could make no response but were totally under the Lord’s control. The crossing of the Jordan is paired with that of the Red Sea as almost a second exodus event. It was just that, in fact, for the new generation born in the wilderness that had not passed out of Egypt with Moses.