Psalms 114

1 When the Israeli [people] left Egypt, when they who were descendants of Jacob left people who spoke a foreign/different language,

When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

2 [the land of] Judah became the place where people worshiped God; and Israel became the land (OR, the [Israeli people] became the people) that he ruled over.

Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

3 [When they came to] the [Red] Sea, [it was as though the water] saw [them] and ran away! When they came to the Jordan [River], that [water in the] river stopped flowing [so that the Israelis could cross it].

The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

4 [When they came to Sinai Mountain and there was a big earthquake], [it was as though] the mountains skipped/jumped like goats do and the hills jumped around like lambs do.

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

5 [If someone asks], “What happened at the [Red] Sea that caused the water to run away? What happened that caused [the water in] the Jordan [River] to stop flowing?

What ails thee, O thou sea, that thou flee? Thou Jordan, that thou turn back?

6 What happened that caused the mountains to skip like goats and caused the hills to jump around like lambs?”

Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams, ye little hills, like lambs?

7 [I would reply that] it was the presence of the Lord that caused those things to happen! [Everyone/Everything on] the earth should tremble in the presence of God, whom (Jacob [worshiped]/the Israeli people [worship])!

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

8 He is the one who caused pools of water [for the Israeli people to drink to flow] from a rock; he caused a spring [to flow] from a solid rock cliff!

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