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Psalm 114 · Book Five
Hallel
About this psalm
Eight verses, and one of the most vivid pieces of writing in the Psalter. The sea looks and runs. Jordan is driven back. The mountains skip like rams, the little hills like lambs. Then the psalm turns and asks them why, like a man questioning witnesses, and tells the earth to tremble at the presence of the Lord.
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1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;2Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.3The sea saw it, and fled:Jordan was driven back.4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams;and ye little hills, like lambs?7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;8Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
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