Psalms 114
Psalm 114 ▼▼sn Psalm 114. The psalmist recalls the events of the exodus and conquest and celebrates God’s kingship over his covenant people.
1 When Israel left Egypt,
when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind, ▼
▼tn Heb “the house of Jacob from a nation speaking a foreign language.”
2 Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his kingdom.
3 The sea looked and fled; ▼
▼sn The psalmist recalls the crossing of the Red Sea (Exod 14:21).
the Jordan River ▼ turned back. ▼
4 The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs. ▼
▼sn The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. This may recall the theophany at Sinai when the mountain shook before God’s presence (Exod 19:18).
5 Why do you flee, O sea?
Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?
6 Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,
like lambs, O hills?
7 Tremble, O earth, before the Lord—
before the God of Jacob,
8 who turned a rock into a pool of water,
a hard rock into springs of water. ▼
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