Psalm 114
This psalm is a hymn celebrating God's miraculous power displayed during the Exodus and the entry into the Promised Land. It vividly recounts how creation itself responded to the presence of the Lord. It is often prayed to recall and give thanks for God's mighty acts of deliverance and His sovereignty over all creation.
Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,
2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
5 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
Hebrew numbering, the one used in most Bibles and searches. In Catholic liturgy (Greek numbering) this psalm may appear one number lower between 10 and 147.