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The Israelites crossing the Red Sea. Circle of Juan de la Corte, between 1630 and 1660. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Psalm 114

8 verses · David and others · 10th to 5th century BC · Wisdom and poetry

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

The line breaks below follow the poem's own punctuation.

When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

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