Psalm 114

¹When the Israelites escaped from Egypt—
when the family of Jacob left that foreign land—
²the land of Judah became God’s sanctuary,
and Israel became his kingdom.

³The Red Sea^[a] saw them coming and hurried out of their way!
    The water of the Jordan River turned away.
⁴The mountains skipped like rams,
    the hills like lambs!
⁵What’s wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way?
    What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away?
⁶Why, mountains, did you skip like rams?
    Why, hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob.
⁸He turned the rock into a pool of water;
yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock.

Footnotes

114:3 Hebrew the sea; also in 114:5.