Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
Darby Translation

Psalms 114

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 theGod of Jacob, 8Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

John Nelson Darby Translation (1890). Public domain or openly redistributable. Confirm the exact edition before public display if text is later imported.