Psalm 114

God’s Deliverance of Israel

^{Tools
1} When Israel came out of Egypt—
the house of Jacob from a people
who spoke a foreign language^(A)—
^{Tools
2} Judah became His sanctuary,
Israel, His dominion.^(B)

^{Tools
3}

The sea looked and fled;^(C)
the Jordan turned back.^(D)

^{Tools
4}

The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills, like lambs.^(E)

^{Tools
5}

Why was it, sea, that you fled?
Jordan, that you turned back?^(F)

^{Tools
6}

Mountains, that you skipped like rams?
Hills, like lambs?^(G)

^{Tools
7}

Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,^(H)

^{Tools
8}

who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.^(I)

Cross references:

A. Psalm 114:1: Exodus 13:3; Psalm 81:5

B. Psalm 114:2: Exodus 15:17; Psalm 78:68-69

C. Psalm 114:3: Exodus 14:21; Psalm 77:16

D. Psalm 114:3: Joshua 3:13-16

E. Psalm 114:4: Exodus 19:18; Psalm 29:6

F. Psalm 114:5: Habakkuk 3:8

G. Psalm 114:6: Habakkuk 3:10

H. Psalm 114:7: Psalm 96:9

I. Psalm 114:8: Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11; Deuteronomy 8:15