Psalm 114
Berean Standard Bible
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.
ExodusCreationLiberationPresence
1When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel His dominion.
3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
6O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
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