1
When
Israel went out of Egypt,the
house of
Jacob from a people of foreign language;
+2
Judah became his sanctuary,Israel his dominion.
3
The sea saw it, and fled.The
Jordan was driven back.
4
The mountains skipped like rams,the little hills like lambs. +
5
What was it, you sea, that you fled?You Jordan, that you turned back? +
6
You mountains, that you skipped like rams;you little hills, like lambs?
7
Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,at the presence of the God of Jacob, +
8
who turned the rock into a pool of water,the
flint into a
spring of waters.
Ps 114:1-8. The writer briefly and beautifully celebrates God's former care of His people, to whose benefit nature was miraculously made to contribute.
1-4. of strange language--(compare Ps 81:5).