Psalm 114

Common English Bible

Psalm 114

114 When Israel came out of Egypt—
    when the house of Jacob came out
    from a people who spoke a different language—
²    Judah was God’s sanctuary;
    Israel was God’s territory.

³The sea saw it happen and ran away;
    the Jordan River retreated!
⁴The mountains leaped away like rams;
    the hills leaped away like lambs!
⁵Sea, why did you run away?
    Jordan, why did you retreat?
⁶    Mountains, why did you leap away like rams?
    Hills, why did you leap away like lambs?

⁷Earth: Tremble before the Lord!
    Tremble before the God of Jacob,
⁸        the one who turned that rock into a pool of water,
        that flint stone into a spring of water!