Psalm 114

A Psalm of Exodus

¹ When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

² Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel His dominion.

³ The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

⁴ the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

⁵ Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

⁶ O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?

⁷ Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸ who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!