Psalms 114

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

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

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

Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.

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

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

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

The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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