A Morning Psalm

Hallelujah! When Israel came out of Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech, Judah became God’s sanctuary

and Israel his dominion. The sea beheld it and fled;

Jordan turned and went back. The mountains skipped like rams,

and the little hills like young sheep. What ailed you, O sea, that you fled?

Jordan, that you turned back? You mountains, that you skipped like rams?

You little hills like young sheep? Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob, Who turned the hard rock into a pool of water

and flint stone into a flowing spring.

Psalm 114: 1-8