# 2 of the Egyptian Hallel Psalms.....sung @ Passover. This, along with Psalm 113, were sung prior to the meal. Psalm 113 was about God's sovereignty over all, and His care for His people.
In reading this Psalm, it comes across with a definite song-like quality. How I wish the music were preserved for us! It sings of the wonders of God during the exodus from Egypt. He took them out of a mighty nation by even more mighty wonders, made Israel His people, and His dwelling place.
The sea fled.
The Jordan stopped flowing.
The mountains 'skipped' (quaked).
Why? Because of God's Presence.
The Psalmist asks the personified earthly things what ails them? Then urges them to tremble and shake at the presence of the almighty God, who also brought water from a rock.
I liked the RSB note for this Psalm: "In 8 short verses, and with virtually unrivaled poetic subtlety, the psalmist describes the tremendous power of God's visual self-revelation(theophany) at the time of Israel's salvation from Egypt and entry into Canaan."
And so, as we have this picture of His mighty works in saving Israel.......so we have the picture of His great and mighty work in saving us through Christ's obedience on the cross.....His own Son became like us, only sinless, and became the sacrifice and propitiation for our sins. He bore God's wrath against our sin, and redeemed us in a mighty way.
indeed we should tremble as the earth at His presence.
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