Psalm 114
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2Judah became His sanctuary, Israel His dominion.
3The sea saw it, and fled; the Jordan turned backward.
4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.
5What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that thou turnest backward?
6Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep?
7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
8Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
JPS TaNaKH 1917 — Public Domain. Where these translations come from.