Parallel Bible results for "psalms 114"

Psalms 114

1 When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

1 The people of Israel came out of Egypt. The people of Jacob left a land where a different language was spoken.

2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

2 Then Judah became the holy place where God lived. Israel became the land he ruled over.

3 The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;

3 The Red Sea saw him and parted. The Jordan River stopped flowing.

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

4 The mountains leaped like rams. The hills skipped like lambs.

5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?

5 Red Sea, why did you part? Jordan River, why did you stop flowing?

6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?

6 Why did you mountains leap like rams? Why did you hills skip like lambs?

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

7 Earth, tremble with fear when the Lord comes. Tremble when the God of Jacob is near.

8 who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.

8 He turned the rock into a pool. He turned the hard rock into springs of water.