Psalm 114

Translated from the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Tap a verse to see why it reads as it does. Tap a small letter to read its footnote.

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When Israel came out of Egypt

¹When Israel left Egypt, when the house of Jacob left a people whose speech was strange to them, ²Judah became his holy place, Israel the realm he rules. ³The sea looked and ran away; the Jordan turned and flowed back. ⁴The mountains sprang about like rams, the hills like lambs from the flock. ⁵What is wrong, sea, that you run away? Jordan, why do you turn back? ⁶Mountains, why do you spring about like rams, and you hills, like lambs from the flock? ⁷Earth, shake with fear before the Lord, before the God of Jacob, ⁸who changed the rock into a pool of water, and hard flint into a flowing spring.