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In all such cases, the intent of the literary construction [of Ps. 114] is to slow down our reading of the poem, making us go over everything twice, forcing the mind to a second and more serious look at the line, prolonging our prayer, obliging us not to go rushing off somewhere. Such poetry is deeply meditative, and the reader who resists its impulse will find himself with acid indigestion of the mind, serious “heartburn” in a most radical and theological sense.
— Patrick Henry Reardon on Psalm 114 in Christ in the Psalms
