Psalm 114 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Psalm 114

God’s Wonders at the Exodus

1 [a]When Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,(A)
2 Judah became God’s[b] sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.(B)

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

5 Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,(E)
8 who turns the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.(F)

Footnotes

  1. 114.1Psalms 114–115 are a single psalm in the earliest witnesses
  2. 114.2Heb his

Cross references

  1. 114.1 : Ex 13.3
  2. 114.2 : Ex 19.6
  3. 114.3 : Ex 14.21; Josh 3.13, 16
  4. 114.4 : Ps 29.6; Hab 3.6
  5. 114.7 : Ps 96.9
  6. 114.8 : Ex 17.6; Deut 8.15; Ps 107.35