Psalms, 114

1. Alleluia! When Israel came out of Egypt, the House of Jacob from a people of foreign speech,

1. When Israel went forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

2. Judah became his sanctuary, and Israel his domain.

2. Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

3. The sea fled at the sight, the Jordan turned back,

3. The sea looked and fled, Jordan turned back.

4. the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like sheep.

4. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

5. Sea, what makes you flee? Jordan, why turn back?

5. What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

6. Why skip like rams, you mountains? Why like sheep, you hills?

6. O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?

7. Tremble, earth, at the coming of the Lord, at the coming of the God of Jacob,

7. Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8. who turns rock into pool, flint into fountain.

8. who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.