Psalms 114

Psalm 114

God’s Wonders at the Exodus

1When Israel went out from Egypt,[#Ex 13.3; #114.1 Psalms 114—115 are a single psalm in the earliest witnesses]

the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

2Judah became God’s sanctuary,[#Ex 19.6; #114.2 Heb his]

Israel his dominion.

3The sea looked and fled;[#Ex 14.21; Josh 3.13, 16]

Jordan turned back.

4The mountains skipped like rams,[#Ps 29.6; Hab 3.6]

the hills like lambs.

5Why is it, O sea, that you flee?

O Jordan, that you turn back?

6O mountains, that you skip like rams?

O hills, like lambs?

7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord ,[#Ps 96.9]

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8who turns the rock into a pool of water,[#Ex 17.6; Deut 8.15; Ps 107.35]

the flint into a spring of water.

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