Psalms 114 WBT
Summary: A brief, vivid exodus psalm personifying nature's reaction to Israel's deliverance: "When Israel went out of Egypt... the sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back" (v. 1, 3). The mountains and hills are pictured leaping "like rams... like lambs" (v. 4), and the psalmist taunts these natural features directly — "What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest?" (v. 5) — before answering that it was the presence of "the God of Jacob" who turns rock into a pool of water (v. 7-8).
1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a foreign language;
2Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion.
3The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs.
5What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, [that] thou wast driven back?
6Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams; [and] ye little hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
8Who turned the rock [into] a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
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