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Ergo,. Psalm 114 is the most perfect distillation of the entirety of biblical salvation into poetic form. It encapsulates creation & consummation, Law & Gospel, & our glorified destination as a royal priesthood & holy nation dwelling in the presence of the Lord. Finis. 19/19.

This is the language of consummate, sabbath rest. "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. ". "Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. ". "To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. ". 18/19.

Ps 114 is a call to faith. "Celebrate the Presence of the Lord." . There is Good News and Bad at his coming. You can be defeated and flee, like Yam, or you can be refreshed and nourished. Law or Gospel? You decide. Will your heart of stone be turned to flesh? . 17/19.

Ps 114 is sacramental. It is a part of the Passover Hallel, but it also celebrates the baptism of Israel in the sea. Christ is our passover. Christ is the Rock from which the living waters flow. 16/19.

Ps 114 is about the Exodus, and more--it is cosmic, reaching back into the mythology of creation & recreation. Yahweh defeats Yam, the sea god. The chaotic waters no longer threaten, block, contain, no longer formless and void. They flow from dry rock, sustain, give life. 15/19.

Psalm 114 closes with an imperative, calling all the earth to celebrate the Lord's life-giving victory over his creation rebellious powers. The waters which fled and turned away, are now pacified. The are the pools and springs that nourish God's people on their way. 14/19.

"Dance, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,. at the presence of the God of Jacob,.who turns the rock into a pool of water,. the flint into a spring of water.". Who or what brought about the Exodus? Caused creation to flee or celebrate?. The presence of the Lord. 13/19.

The time horizon for the original (post-exilic) Hebrew worshipers looks back to the Exodus from Egypt, but also the new Exodus from Babylon. Then into the present of the worshiping community. And in the final verses a fourth horizon opens. 12/19.

The diversity of response -- waters flee, but hills leap -- begs the question. How will you respond?. Crucially, the tense of the verbs has shifted into the present. The reader is placed alongside the actors in the drama. 11/19.

Poetically, our author is building the tension. The point of Israel's deliverance from Egypt isn't so much in the details of the events, as in the Actor, the God who saves. 10/19.

Vss 5-6 are a virtual repetition of 3-4, now cast in the form of a rhetorical question:. "What’s with you, O sea, that you flee?. O Jordan, that you turn back?.O mountains, that you skip like rams?. O hills, like lambs?". What did you see that caused this response?. 9/19.

Note, this is my translation. Following Zenger, I see a contrast between the response of the waters and the mountains. The action of the waters is one of flight of a defeated enemy; the action of the mountains is, potentially, one of celebration and joy. 8/19.

Tension is building in the poem. These first four verses are in the past tense, but the subject of this saving work, the Lord, has not yet been named. How did Israel go out? What did the sea, see?. 7/19.

"The sea looked and fled;. The Jordan turned back. But the mountains skipped like rams,. the hills like lambs.". Likewise, the next two verses encapsulate the Exodus as a comprehensive process that starts in Egypt and ends in the holy land. Exodus & Eisodus. 6/19.

"When Israel went out from Egypt,.the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,.Judah became his sanctuary,. Israel his dominion.". Note that these first two verses don't merely set the scene as the Exodus, they include temple & kingdom as the goal of salvation. 5/19.

Imagine this creative writing assignment: . "Reduce the entirety of biblical revelation into an eight line poem, two lines of the poem which must virtually be repeated in toto. Be sure the include a call to saving faith.". That's psalm 114. 4/19.

Psalm 114 seems to be about the Exodus. But it is actually about the entire sweep of biblical revelation, creation, fall, redemption. It takes "deliverance" as the core biblical message. and links it into the entire dramatic sweep of rdemptive history. 3/19.