Psalm 114

New International Reader's Version

114 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 Jordan River stopped flowing.
⁴ The mountains leaped like rams.
    The hills skipped like lambs.

⁵ Red Sea, why did you part?
    Jordan River, 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.