"Why is it, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back? O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?" (vs. 5-6)
The psalmist had just commented in verses 3 and 4 that the sea, Jordan, mountains and hills had done these things at the time of the Exodus. Now he is poetically asking them why they took such actions.
He supplies his own answer in versus 7 and 8: "Tremble, 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." It seems that God's overwhelming power and majesty is enough to cow the earth into obedience. At His presence, the waters flee and the land runs away. A callback to God's provision of water in the wilderness for His people is included as evidence that God is in firm command of the land and the seas.
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