Psalms 114

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

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

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

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

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

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

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

the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

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

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

6 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?

O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?

7 Before the face of the Lord, the earth was moved, before the face of the God of Jacob.

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

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

who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!