Psalm 114

GOD’S WORD Translation

114 When Israel left Egypt,
when Jacob’s family left people who spoke a foreign language,
² Judah became his holy place and Israel became his kingdom.
³ The Red Sea looked at this and ran away.
The Jordan River turned back.
⁴ The mountains jumped like rams.
The hills jumped like lambs.
⁵ Red Sea, why did you run away?
Jordan River, what made you turn back?
⁶ Mountains, what made you jump like rams?
Hills, what made you jump like lambs?
⁷ Earth, tremble in the presence of the Lord,
in the presence of the God of Jacob.
⁸ He turns a rock into a pool filled with water
and turns flint into a spring flowing with water.