Psalms 114

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O 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, O 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, the flint into a fountain of water!

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