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Psalm 114

The wonders of the exodus

When Israel went out of Egypt, the sea fled and Jordan was driven back, mountains skipped like rams, as God turned the rock into a fountain of waters.

8 verses. The 114th of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,

2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

3The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

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

5What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

6You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?

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

8who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.

Matthew Henry on Psalm 114

1,566 words, in 1 passage.

  1. Verses 1–8The Deliverance of Israel Celebrated.

World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.