Psalms Chapter 114 (GENEVA1599)

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1 When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of Iaakob from the barbarous people,

2 Iudah was his sanctification, and Israel his dominion.

3 The Sea sawe it and fled: Iorden was turned backe.

4 The mountaines leaped like rams, and the hils as lambes.

5 What ailed thee, O Sea, that thou fleddest? O Iorden, why wast thou turned backe?

6 Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rams, and ye hils as lambes?

7 The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Iaakob,

8 Which turneth the rocke into waterpooles, and the flint into a fountaine 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.