Psalms 114:5

5 Red Sea, why did you part? Jordan River, why did you stop flowing?

Psalms 114:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 114:5

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest?
&c.] What was the matter with thee? what appeared to thee? what didst thou see? what didst thou feel, which caused thee to flee in such haste?

Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
what is the meaning that thou didst not continue to flow as usual? what was it that stopped thy flowing tide? that cut off thy waters? that drove them back as fast or faster than they came?

Psalms 114:5 In-Context

3 The Red Sea saw him and parted. The Jordan River stopped flowing.

4 The mountains leaped like rams. The hills skipped like lambs.

5 Red Sea, why did you part? Jordan River, why did you stop flowing?

6 Why did you mountains leap like rams? Why did you hills skip like lambs?

7 Earth, tremble with fear when the Lord comes. Tremble when the God of Jacob is near.