from Biblica1When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,2Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.3The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;4the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?6Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?7Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,8who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.
Psalm 114
New International Reader’s Version
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.