Psalms 114

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

When Israel left Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language,

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

Judah became his holy place, Israel his kingdom.

3 The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.

The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back.

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

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

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

Why did you flee, sea? Jordan, why did you turn back?

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

Mountains, why did you skip like rams? You little hills, why did you skip like lambs?

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

Tremble, earth, before the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.

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

He turned the rock into a pool of water, the hard rock into a spring of water.