Psalms Chapter 114 (ROTHERHAM)

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1 When Israel came forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from among a people of strange tongue,

2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his realm:

3 The sea, beheld, and fled, The Jordan, turned back;

4 The mountains, started like rams, The hills like the young of the flock?

5 What aileth thee, O sea, that thou fleest? O Jordan, that thou turnest back?

6 Ye mountains, that ye start like rams? Ye hills, like the young of the flock?

7 Before the Lord, be in anguish, O earth, Before the GOD of Jacob:

8 Who turneth The Rock into a pool of water, The Flint into springs 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.