Psalms 114

Praise to God for His Works During the Exodus

¹When Israel went out from Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language,

²Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

³The sea looked and fled;

the Jordan turned back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.

⁵What’s with you, O sea, that you fled?

O Jordan, that you turned back?

⁶O mountains, that you skipped like rams?

O hills, like lambs?

⁷At the presence of the Lord writhe, O earth,[#Or “O land”]

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool of water,

flinty stone into a spring of water.