Psalm 114
Bible in Basic English
Chapter overview
Psalm 114 compresses Exodus and entry into the land into a vivid creation response. Sea and Jordan withdraw, mountains leap, and stone becomes water before the presence that transforms enslaved people into a sanctuary.
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1When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;
2Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.
3The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.
4The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.
5What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?
6You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?
7Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;
8Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.
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