Psalm 114

New International Version

from Biblica
1 When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.3 The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,8 who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.

Psalm 114

New International Reader’s Version

from Biblica
1 The people of Israel came out of Egypt. The people of Jacob left a land where a different language was spoken.2 Then Judah became the holy place where God lived. Israel became the land he ruled over.3 The Red Sea saw him and parted. The River Jordan stopped flowing.4 The mountains leaped like rams. The hills skipped like lambs.5 Red Sea, why did you part? River Jordan, why did you stop flowing?6 Why did you mountains leap like rams? Why did you hills skip like lambs?7 Earth, tremble with fear when the Lord comes. Tremble when the God of Jacob is near.8 He turned the rock into a pool. He turned the hard rock into springs of water.