Psalm 114
About Psalms
The Psalms are 150 songs and prayers, written over many centuries by David and others, and gathered into five books for Israel’s worship. Every human feeling is here: joy, fear, anger, grief, confusion and thanks. Many begin in trouble and end in trust. Jesus prayed them too, even on the cross, where He spoke the opening line of Psalm 22. Read them slowly. They are meant to be prayed, not only read.
Before you read Psalm 114Written by AI
A short, vivid poem about the Exodus. The sea saw God and fled, the Jordan turned back, and the mountains skipped like rams. Then the poet playfully asks them why. Notice the ending: the God who turned rock into a spring is still present, and the whole earth should tremble before Him.
A Psalm of Exodus
When Israel departed from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
Judah became God’s sanctuary,
Israel His dominion.
The sea observed and fled;
the Jordan turned back;
the mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
Why was it, O sea, that you fled,
O Jordan, that you turned back,
O mountains, that you skipped like rams,
O hills, like lambs?
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool,
the flint into a fountain of water!