Old Testament
Psalms 114
Overview
Psalm 114 is a vivid hymn celebrating the exodus, picturing creation itself reacting to the LORD's saving presence. The sea fled, the Jordan turned back, the mountains skipped like rams and the hills like lambs when Israel came out of Egypt. The psalm asks creation why it trembled, then answers: tremble before the Lord, who turns rock into pools of water.
1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
3The sea saw it , and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
8Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.