Psalms 114

1 When Israel came forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from among a people of strange tongue,

When the Israeli [people] left Egypt, when they who were descendants of Jacob left people who spoke a foreign/different language,

2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his realm:

[the land of] Judah became the place where people worshiped God; and Israel became the land (OR, the [Israeli people] became the people) that he ruled over.

3 The sea, beheld, and fled, The Jordan, turned back;

[When they came to] the [Red] Sea, [it was as though the water] saw [them] and ran away! When they came to the Jordan [River], that [water in the] river stopped flowing [so that the Israelis could cross it].

4 The mountains, started like rams, The hills like the young of the flock?

[When they came to Sinai Mountain and there was a big earthquake], [it was as though] the mountains skipped/jumped like goats do and the hills jumped around like lambs do.

5 What aileth thee, O sea, that thou fleest? O Jordan, that thou turnest back?

[If someone asks], “What happened at the [Red] Sea that caused the water to run away? What happened that caused [the water in] the Jordan [River] to stop flowing?

6 Ye mountains, that ye start like rams? Ye hills, like the young of the flock?

What happened that caused the mountains to skip like goats and caused the hills to jump around like lambs?”

7 Before the Lord, be in anguish, O earth, Before the GOD of Jacob:

[I would reply that] it was the presence of the Lord that caused those things to happen! [Everyone/Everything on] the earth should tremble in the presence of God, whom (Jacob [worshiped]/the Israeli people [worship])!

8 Who turneth The Rock into a pool of water, The Flint into springs of water.

He is the one who caused pools of water [for the Israeli people to drink to flow] from a rock; he caused a spring [to flow] from a solid rock cliff!