Psalms

114 Praise Jehovah!

When Israel came out of Egypt,

Jacob’s family from a people of outlandish speech,

2 Judah became sacred to him,

Israel his dominions.

3 The sea saw and took flight,

the Jordan turned round backward,

4 The mountains leaped like rams,

hills like sons of the flocks.

5 What happened to you, sea, that you should take flight?

Jordan, that you should turn round backward?

6 That you should leap like rams, mountains,

like sons of the flocks, hills?

7 Quiver, earth, before a Lord,

before Jacob’s God,

8 Who turns the rock to a pool of water,

a block of pyrite to a fountainhead of water.