Psalms 114

1 When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3 The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;
4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.
5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.

Cross References 9

  • 1. S Exodus 13:3; S Exodus 29:46
  • 2. Psalms 76:1
  • 3. S Exodus 15:17; Psalms 78:68-69
  • 4. Exodus 14:21; Psalms 77:16
  • 5. S Exodus 15:8; S Joshua 3:16
  • 6. S Judges 5:5
  • 7. S Exodus 14:21
  • 8. S Exodus 15:14; S 1 Chronicles 16:30; Psalms 96:9
  • 9. S Exodus 17:6; S Numbers 20:11; Psalms 107:35

Psalms 114 Commentaries

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