Psalms 114

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

Alleluia. At the going forth of Israel from Egypt, of the house of Jacob from a barbarous people,

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

Judea became his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion.

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

The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.

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

The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs.

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

What [ailed] thee, O sea, that thou fleddest? and thou Jordan, that thou wast turned back?

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

[Ye] mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and [ye] hills, like lambs?

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

The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

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

who turned the rock into pools of water, and the flint into fountains of water.