Psalm 114 (113 A)
The departure from Egypt. The power of God-Savior manifested itself in the first Passover, the departure from Egypt. The resurrection of Christ has touched the universe in a different way.
1 Alleluia!
When Israel came out of Egypt,
the family of Jacob
from a people of foreign language,
2 Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his possession.
3 At his sight the sea fled
and the Jordan retreated;
4 the mountains skipped like rams,
the hills frolicked like lambs.
5 Why is it, sea, that you flee?
Jordan, that you turn back?
6 Mountains, that you skip like rams?
Hills, that you frolic like lambs?
7 Tremble, O earth, at your Master’s presence,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turned the rock into a stream,
and the flint into a spring.