Psalms 114

1 Alleluia. At the departure of Israel from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:

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

2 Judea was made his sanctuary; Israel was made his power.

Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

3 The sea looked, and it fled. The Jordan was turned back again.

The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

4 The mountains exulted like rams, and the hills like lambs among the sheep.

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

5 What happened to you, O sea, so that you fled, and to you, O Jordan, so that you were turned back again?

What ails thee, O thou sea, that thou flee? Thou Jordan, that thou turn back?

6 What happened to you, O mountains, so that you exulted like rams, and to you, O hills, so that you exulted like lambs among the sheep?

Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams, ye little hills, like lambs?

7 Before the face of the Lord, the earth was moved, before the face of the God of Jacob.

Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8 He converted the rock into pools of water, and the cliff into fountains of waters.

who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.