Psalms 114

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

When Israel went out of Egypt, Jacob’s house from a barbarous people,

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

God chose Judah for himself, Israel became his kingdom.

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

The sea saw it, and fled, Jordan river ran backwards.

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

Mountains skipped like rams, hills like the young of the flock.

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

Why, sea, do you flee? Jordan, why run backwards?

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

Mountains, why skip ram-like? Why, hills, like the young of the flock?

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

Earth, tremble before the Lord, at the presence of Jacob’s God,

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

who turns rocks into pools of water, and flint into fountains of water.