Psalms 114

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

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

2 Judah became his holy place, Israel his kingdom.

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

3 The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back.

The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.

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

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

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

What [ailed] you, O sea, that you fled? and you Jordan, that you were turned back?

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

[You] mountains, that you skipped like rams, and [you] hills, like lambs?

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

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

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

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