< Psalms 114 >

1 When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
At the time of the exodus of Israel from Egypt, when the descendants of Jacob left that foreign country,
2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.
the land of Judah became the Lord's sanctuary, Israel his kingdom.
3 The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
The Red Sea saw them and ran away; the Jordan River retreated.
4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
Mountains jumped in fright like rams, hills startled like lambs.
5 Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
Red Sea—why did you run away? Jordan River—why did you retreat?
6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
Mountains—why did you jump in fright? Hills—why did you startle like lambs?
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Earth, tremble in the presence of the Lord, tremble in the presence of the God of Jacob!
8 who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
He is the one who turned the rock into a pool of water; making water flow from the hard rock.

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