Psalm 114 :: New International Version (NIV)

(cf. Exo 14:1–31 )

Psa 114:1

Psa 114:1When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

Psa 114:2

Psa 114:2Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Psa 114:3

Psa 114:3The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;

Psa 114:4

Psa 114:4the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Psa 114:5

Psa 114:5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?

Psa 114:6

Psa 114:6Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?

Psa 114:7

Psa 114:7Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Psa 114:8

Psa 114:8who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.

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