Add parallel Print Page Options

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

Judah was his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

The sea saw it and fled, the Jordan turned back;

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye hills, like lambs?

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

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

Psalm 114

When Israel came out of Egypt,(A)
    Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
Judah(B) became God’s sanctuary,(C)
    Israel his dominion.

The sea looked and fled,(D)
    the Jordan turned back;(E)
the mountains leaped(F) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?(G)
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
    you hills, like lambs?

Tremble, earth,(H) at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool,
    the hard rock into springs of water.(I)