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Praise to God for His Works During the Exodus

114 When Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language,
Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.
The sea looked and fled;
the Jordan turned back.
The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.[a]
What’s with you, O sea, that you fled?
O Jordan, that you turned back?
O mountains, that you skipped like rams?
O hills, like lambs?
At the presence of the Lord writhe, O earth,[b]
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool of water,
flinty stone into a spring of water.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 114:4 Literally “sons of the flock”
  2. Psalm 114:7 Or “O land”

Deliverance of Israel from Egypt

114 When Israel came out of Egypt—
    the household of Jacob from a people of foreign speech—
Judah became his sanctuary
    and Israel his place of dominion.

The sea saw this[a] and fled,
    the Jordan River[b] ran backwards,
the mountains skipped like rams,
    and the hills like lambs.

What happened to you, sea, that you fled?
    Jordan, that you ran backwards?
Mountains, that you skipped like rams?
    And you hills, that you skipped[c] like lambs?

Tremble then, 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 flinty rock into flowing springs.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 114:3 The Heb. lacks this
  2. Psalm 114:3 The Heb. lacks River
  3. Psalm 114:6 The Heb. lacks that you skipped