Psalm 114

Contemporary English Version

^3 (B) When the sea looked at God,
    it ran away,
and the Jordan River
    flowed upstream.
⁴ The mountains and the hills
    skipped around like goats.

⁵ Ask the sea why it ran away
or ask the Jordan
    why it flowed upstream.
⁶ Ask the mountains and the hills
    why they skipped like goats!

⁷ Earth, you will tremble,
when the Lord God of Jacob
    comes near,
^8 (C) because he turns solid rock
into flowing streams
    and pools of water.