Psalm 114

A Passover Song

114^*When the people of Israel left Egypt,

when Jacob’s descendants left that foreign land,

²Judah became the Lord’s holy people,

Israel became his own possession.

^3*The Red Sea looked and ran away;

the River Jordan stopped flowing.

⁴The mountains skipped like goats;

the hills jumped about like lambs.

⁵What happened, Sea, to make you run away?

And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?

⁶You mountains, why did you skip like goats?

You hills, why did you jump about like lambs?

⁷Tremble, earth, at the Lord’s coming,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

^8*who changes rocks into pools of water

and solid cliffs into flowing springs.