Psalms 114

Berean Standard Bible

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Psalm 114 recounts the departure of Israel and the house of Jacob from Egypt among a people of a foreign tongue. Upon this exodus, Judah became God's sanctuary and Israel became His dominion. The text describes how the sea observed them and fled, while the Jordan river turned back. Furthermore, the mountains skipped like rams and the hills leaped like lambs. The psalm questions the sea, the Jordan, the mountains, and the hills regarding these movements. Finally, the earth is commanded to tremble at the presence of the Lord, the God of Jacob, who transformed the rock into a pool and the flint into a fountain of water.

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¹When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, ²Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel His dominion. ³The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back; ⁴the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. ⁵Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back, ⁶O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs? ⁷Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, ⁸who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

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