Psalms 114

₁God brought his people

out of Egypt, that land

with a strange language.

₂He made Judah his holy place

and ruled over Israel.

₃When the sea looked at God,

it ran away,

and the River Jordan

flowed upstream.

₄The mountains and the hills

skipped around like goats.

₅Ask the sea why it ran away

or ask the Jordan

why it flowed upstream.

₆Ask the mountains and the hills

why they skipped like goats!

₇Earth, you will tremble,

when the Lord God of Jacob

comes near,

₈because he turns solid rock

into flowing streams

and pools of water.