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Psalm 114
Chapter summary coming soon.
Verse 1. When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
Verse 2. Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel His dominion.
Verse 3. The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
Verse 4. the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
Verse 5. Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
Verse 6. O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
Verse 7. Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Verse 8. who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!