Psalm 114

Good News Translation

A Passover Song

114 ^(A)When the people of Israel left Egypt,
when Jacob's descendants left that foreign land,
²Judah became the Lord's holy people,
Israel became his own possession.

³^(B)The Red Sea looked and ran away;
the Jordan River stopped flowing.
⁴The mountains skipped like goats;
the hills jumped around like lambs.

⁵What happened, Sea, to make you run away?
And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?
⁶You mountains, why did you skip like goats?
You hills, why did you jump around like lambs?

⁷Tremble, earth, at the Lord's coming,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
⁸^(C)who changes rocks into pools of water
and solid cliffs into flowing springs.