Psalms 114

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

At the time of the exodus of Israel from Egypt, when the descendants of Jacob left that foreign country,

2 Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.

the land of Judah became the Lord's sanctuary, Israel his kingdom.

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

The Red Sea saw them and ran away; the Jordan River retreated.

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

Mountains jumped in fright like rams, hills startled like lambs.

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

Red Sea—why did you run away? Jordan River—why did you retreat?

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

Mountains—why did you jump in fright? Hills—why did you startle like lambs?

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

Earth, tremble in the presence of the Lord, tremble in the presence of the God of Jacob!

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

He is the one who turned the rock into a pool of water; making water flow from the hard rock.