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Psalms

Chapter 114

Israel's Deliverance from Egypt

The psalmist recalls Israel's miraculous exodus from Egypt, when the Lord set Judah and Israel apart as His sanctuary and dominion. At the Lord's presence, the sea fled, the Jordan was driven back, and mountains and hills skipped like rams. The psalmist invites the earth to tremble at the presence of God, who turned rock into water.

Exodus from EgyptDivine powerMiraculous natureDivine presence

1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

2Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

3The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

8Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

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