Psalms 114:1
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Study Guide
Psalms 114
Overview
A brief lyrical psalm celebrating the Exodus when the sea fled and the Jordan turned back at Israel's approach, the mountains skipped like rams. The earth is commanded to tremble before the God who turns rock into a pool and flint into springs.
Key Verses
Psalms 114:2
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
Psalms 114:3
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
Psalms 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Psalms 114:7
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Full Text
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.