Psalms, Chapter 114
This is Psalms, chapter 114, a sacred text in the Judaism tradition. You can read it here verse by verse for free, listen to it read aloud, and follow cross-references that connect its themes to other traditions.
When Israel went forth from Egypt,the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech,
Judah became God’s holy one,aholy one Or “sanctuary.” Israel, God’s dominion.
The sea saw them and fled,Jordan ran backward,
mountains skipped like rams,hills like sheep.
What alarmed you, O sea, that you fled,Jordan, that you ran backward,
mountains, that you skipped like rams,hills, like sheep?
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Sovereign,at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool of water,the flinty rock into a fountain.