Psalm 114 – The Marvel of the Exodus

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114 When Israel went out of Egypt,

Jacob’s house from a barbarous people,

2 God chose Judah for himself,

Israel became his kingdom.

3 The sea saw it, and fled,

Jordan river ran backwards.

4 Mountains skipped like rams,

hills like the young of the flock.

5 Why, sea, do you flee?

Jordan, why run backwards?

6 Mountains, why skip ram-like?

Why, hills, like the young of the flock?

7 Earth, tremble before the Lord,

at the presence of Jacob’s God,

8 who turns rocks into pools of water,

and flint into fountains of water.