Psalms 114
The Israelites' exodus from Egypt is described as a time of divine intervention, where the sea and Jordan River retreated, and the mountains and hills shook in response to God's presence. The passage asks rhetorical questions about the cause of these natural phenomena, attributing them to God's power. The earth is called to tremble at the presence of the Lord, who can transform even the hardest rock into a source of water.
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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