Psalm 114
Darby Translation · 8 verses
1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,2Judah was his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.3The sea saw it and fled, the Jordan turned back;4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.5What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye hills, like lambs?7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,8Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Darby's Synopsis
Psalm 114 is of the highest style of poetry, but is important to us as directly connecting the ancient deliverance of Israel out of Egypt with the present deliverance of the people, and seeing the same Jehovah in both calling the earth to tremble at the presence of Jehovah. It was right in those days. At Jacob's deliverance then, the sea fled and Jordan was driven back. What was this? Was it affright before the presence of man?
Text: J. N. Darby, The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages, public domain. Emphasized words are Darby's own. Provenance on the sources page.