The chapter as it stands, read forward into the canon it would help write. Beside each verse, the New Testament places that quote, allude to, or echo it — follow any to read it in its own argument. The verse number opens its full reception dossier.
1
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
2
Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
4
The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
5
What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
6
You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?
7
Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8
who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.