Psalms 114
The psalmist celebrates the exodus in vivid poetic imagery: the sea fled, the Jordan turned back, the mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs. All creation trembles at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turns rock into pools of water.
| v | King James Version | Modern English |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; | When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, |
| 2 | Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. | Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel His domain. |
| 3 | The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. | The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back; |
| 4 | The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. | the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs. |
| 5 | What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? | Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back? |
| 6 | Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? | Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs? |
| 7 | Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; | Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, |
| 8 | Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters. | who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water. |