Psalms 114

1 When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;

2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.

Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.

3 The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

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

The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

5 Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?

You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?

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

Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;

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

Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.