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Hallelujah, God does great things[a]

114 God led Israel's people out of Egypt.
    Jacob's descendants left that foreign land.
Then Judah became God's special place for his people.
    There he ruled over Israel's people.
The sea looked and ran away!
    Then the Jordan River turned back![b]

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Footnotes

  1. 114:1 This is the second ‘Egyptian hallel’ psalm. It tells us what happened when the people of Israel left Egypt.
  2. 114:3 The sea was the Red Sea. It was between Egypt and Canaan. See Exodus 14:10-22 A dry path appeared in the sea. The same thing happened to the Jordan River. See Joshua 3:7-17.