Psalmorum 114

1 Alleluja. In exitu Israël de Ægypto, domus Jacob de populo barbaro,

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

2 facta est Judæa sanctificatio ejus; Israël potestas ejus.

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

3 Mare vidit, et fugit; Jordanis conversus est retrorsum.

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

4 Montes exsultaverunt ut arietes, et colles sicut agni ovium.

the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

5 Quid est tibi, mare, quod fugisti? et tu, Jordanis, quia conversus es retrorsum?

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

6 montes, exsultastis sicut arietes? et colles, sicut agni ovium?

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

7 A facie Domini mota est terra, a facie Dei Jacob:

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

8 qui convertit petram in stagna aquarum, et rupem in fontes aquarum.

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