What is the context?
The peoples are invited to praise God’s awesome deeds and contemplate His works toward humanity. The remembered sea made dry provides a concrete testimony of deliverance.
The hymn includes the worshiping community within that history and warns the rebellious not to exalt themselves. Praise concerns the One whose rule reaches beyond the original event.
The crossing is remembered as a gift of divine power, not a technique that later people can reproduce by their own command.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley understands the we as the community identifying with its ancestors and the nations as included in the call to praise. This explains shared memory without treating the current singers as necessarily eyewitnesses to the crossing.
Where does this fit in God's plan?
1 Corinthians 10:1–13 develops the wider exodus theme, relating the sea and divine provision to the people’s life and naming Christ within that provision. Paul also warns against presumption. He is not directly quoting Psalm 66 or saying that rescue from danger removes every need for continued faithfulness.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.