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Psalms 114

1 When Israel came out of Egypt — the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language —
2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel, his dominion.
3 The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs.
5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back?
6 Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a spring.

Chapter Summary

Creation trembles at the exodus: the sea flees, the Jordan retreats, and mountains skip like rams before the Lord.

Book Summary

Psalms is the Bible's songbook: one hundred fifty prayers and hymns of praise, lament, thanksgiving, and trust, many attributed to David. From the depths of despair to the heights of worship, it has voiced the prayers of God's people for millennia.