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114:3-6 The Red Sea and the Jordan River. The next section recalls how God split the Red sea (Ex. 14:21-22), and later the Jordan River (Josh. 3:15-17; cf. Josh. 4:21-24, where the two events are explicitly joined), for the sake of his people. The mountains may refer to God's arrival at Sinai (Ex. 19:18-20). The natural elements are personified, as if the sea, the river, and the mountains were all terrified of the Lord. This imagery is designed to show the absolute power that God has over his own creation.