Psalms 114:5
Why was it, O sea, that you fled,
What it says
The psalm asks the sea why it fled and the Jordan why it turned back.
What it is doing
This verse begins the rhetorical interrogation of creation.
In context
1When Israel departed from Egypt, 2Judah became God’s sanctuary, 3The sea observed and fled; 4the mountains skipped like rams, 5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, 6O mountains, that you skipped like rams, 7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, 8who turned the rock into a pool,