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Psalm 114

When Israel Came Out of Egypt

When Israel came out of Egypt
and the house of Jacob from a people with a strange language,
Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel became his kingdom.
The sea saw and fled.
The Jordan turned back.
The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
What happened, O sea, that you fled,
O Jordan, that you turned back,
O mountains, that you skipped like rams,
you hills, like lambs?
Tremble in the presence of the Lord, O earth.
Tremble in the presence of the God of Jacob.
He turned the rock into a pool of water.
He turned flint into springs of water.

Psalm 114

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

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

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

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