Psalms 114

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

When Israel went out of Egypt, Jacob’s house from a barbarous people,

2 Judah became his holy place, Israel his kingdom.

God chose Judah for himself, Israel became his kingdom.

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

The sea saw it, and fled, Jordan river ran backwards.

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

Mountains skipped like rams, hills like the young of the flock.

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

Why, sea, do you flee? Jordan, why run backwards?

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

Mountains, why skip ram-like? Why, hills, like the young of the flock?

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

Earth, tremble before the Lord, at the presence of Jacob’s God,

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

who turns rocks into pools of water, and flint into fountains of water.