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114 When Israel went out of Egypt,
    the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,
Judah became his sanctuary,
    Israel his dominion.
The sea saw it, and fled.
    The Jordan was driven back.
The mountains skipped like rams,
    the little hills like lambs.
What was it, you sea, that you fled?
    You Jordan, that you turned back?
You mountains, that you skipped like rams;
    you little hills, like lambs?
Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool of water,
    the flint into a spring of waters.

Psalm 114

When the Israelites escaped from Egypt—
    when the family of Jacob left that foreign land—
the land of Judah became God’s sanctuary,
    and Israel became his kingdom.

The Red Sea[a] saw them coming and hurried out of their way!
    The water of the Jordan River turned away.
The mountains skipped like rams,
    the hills like lambs!
What’s wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way?
    What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away?
Why, mountains, did you skip like rams?
    Why, hills, like lambs?

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob.
He turned the rock into a pool of water;
    yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock.

Footnotes

  1. 114:3 Hebrew the sea; also in 114:5.