Psalm 114, side by side

¹When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

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

²Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.

²Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

³The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

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

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

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

⁵Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

⁵What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

⁶O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?

⁶Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

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

⁷Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

⁸who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

⁸Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.