Psalms 114

1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

Alleluia. At the departure of Israel from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:

2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Judea was made his sanctuary; Israel was made his power.

3 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

The sea looked, and it fled. The Jordan was turned back again.

4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

The mountains exulted like rams, and the hills like lambs among the sheep.

5 What ails thee, O thou sea, that thou flee? Thou Jordan, that thou turn back?

What happened to you, O sea, so that you fled, and to you, O Jordan, so that you were turned back again?

6 Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams, ye little hills, like lambs?

What happened to you, O mountains, so that you exulted like rams, and to you, O hills, so that you exulted like lambs among the sheep?

7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Before the face of the Lord, the earth was moved, before the face of the God of Jacob.

8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

He converted the rock into pools of water, and the cliff into fountains of waters.