Psalm 114 - New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 114

1 When Israel came out of Egypt,(A)
Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2 Judah(B) became God’s sanctuary,(C)
Israel his dominion.

3 The sea looked and fled,(D)
the Jordan turned back;(E)
4 the mountains leaped(F) like rams,
the hills like lambs.

5 Why was it, sea, that you fled?(G)
Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
you hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, earth,(H) at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turned the rock into a pool,
the hard rock into springs of water.(I)

Cross references

  1. Psalm 114:1 : S Ex 13:3; S 29:46
  2. Psalm 114:2 : Ps 76:1
  3. Psalm 114:2 : S Ex 15:17; Ps 78:68-69
  4. Psalm 114:3 : Ex 14:21; Ps 77:16
  5. Psalm 114:3 : S Ex 15:8; S Jos 3:16
  6. Psalm 114:4 : S Jdg 5:5
  7. Psalm 114:5 : S Ex 14:21
  8. Psalm 114:7 : S Ex 15:14; S 1Ch 16:30
  9. Psalm 114:8 : S Ex 17:6; S Nu 20:11