Psalms Chapter 114 (BSB)

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

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

3 The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

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

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

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

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

It recalls Israel's exodus from Egypt (v.1) and is retold through poetic imagery: "the sea saw it, and fled," and "Jordan was driven back" (v.3).

V.4 pictures the mountains skipping "like rams" and the hills "like lambs," dramatizing creation's trembling response to God's presence.

V.8 reads, "which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters," recalling God providing water out of rock.

Today's Verse

Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.