from Biblica1The people of Israel came out of Egypt. The people of Jacob left a land where a different language was spoken.2Then Judah became the holy place where God lived. Israel became the land he ruled over.3The Red Sea saw him and parted. The River Jordan stopped flowing.4The mountains leaped like rams. The hills skipped like lambs.5Red Sea, why did you part? River Jordan, why did you stop flowing?6Why did you mountains leap like rams? Why did you hills skip like lambs?7Earth, tremble with fear when the Lord comes. Tremble when the God of Jacob is near.8He turned the rock into a pool. He turned the hard rock into springs of water.
Psalm 114
Nuova Riveduta 2006
from Società Biblica di Ginevra
Ricordo delle liberazioni del passato
1Quando Israele uscì dall’Egitto e la casa di Giacobbe da un popolo di lingua straniera,2Giuda divenne il santuario del Signore e Israele il suo dominio.3Il mare lo vide e fuggì, il Giordano si volse indietro.4I monti saltellarono come montoni, i colli come agnelli.5Che avevi tu, o mare, per fuggire? E tu, Giordano, perché tornasti indietro?6E voi, monti, perché saltellaste come montoni e voi, colli, come agnelli?7Trema, o terra, alla presenza del Signore, alla presenza del Dio di Giacobbe,8che mutò la roccia in lago, il macigno in sorgente d’acqua.