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Psalm 114
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Hallelujah, God does great things[a]

114 God led Israel's people out of Egypt.
    Jacob's descendants left that foreign land.
2 Then Judah became God's special place for his people.
    There he ruled over Israel's people.
3 The sea looked and ran away!
    Then the Jordan River turned back![b]
4 The mountains shook,
    like sheep that are jumping.
The hills jumped like lambs.[c]
5 Tell me, sea, why did you run away?
Tell me, Jordan River, why did you turn back?
6 And you mountains and hills,
    why did you jump like sheep?
7 Earth, you should shake with fear!
The Lord, Jacob's God, has come to you,
    so be afraid!
8 He changes a rock into a pool of water!
    Water pours out of a hard rock![d]

Footnotes

  1. 114:1 This is the second ‘Egyptian hallel’ psalm. It tells us what happened when the people of Israel left Egypt.
  2. 114:3 The sea was the Red Sea. It was between Egypt and Canaan. See Exodus 14:10-22 A dry path appeared in the sea. The same thing happened to the Jordan River. See Joshua 3:7-17.
  3. 114:4 The hills and mountains jumped like animals when the Lord was near. See Exodus 19:18-20.
  4. 114:8 See Exodus 17:1-7; Numbers 20:11.
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Psalm 114

1 When Israel came out of Egypt,(A)
    Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2 Judah(B) became God’s sanctuary,(C)
    Israel his dominion.

3 The sea looked and fled,(D)
    the Jordan turned back;(E)
4 the mountains leaped(F) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

5 Why was it, sea, that you fled?(G)
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
    you hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, earth,(H) at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turned the rock into a pool,
    the hard rock into springs of water.(I)

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