PSALM 113: 1 - 9
Praise the LORD!
You who serve the LORD -- praise!
Praise the LORD's name!
Let the LORD's name be blessed from now until forever from now!
From sunrise to sunset, let the LORD's name be praised!
The LORD is high over all the nations;
God's glory is higher than the skies!
Who could possibly compare to the LORD our God?
God rules from on high;
he has to come down to even see heaven and earth!
God lifts up the poor from the dirt and raises up the needy
from the garbage pile to seat them with leaders --
with the leaders of his own people!
God nests the once barren woman at home --
now a joyful mother with children!
Praise the LORD!
(PSALM 114: 1-8)
When Israel came out of Egypt --
when the house of Jacob came out from a people who spoke a different language --
Judah was God's sanctuary,
Israel was God's sanctuary.
The sea saw it happen and ran away,
the Jordan River retreated!
The mountains leaped away like rains;
the hills leaped away like lambs!
Sea, why did you run away?
Jordan, why did you retreat?
Mountains, why did you leap away like rams?
Earth: tremble before the LORD!
Tremble before the God of Jacob,
the one who turned that rock into a pool of water,
that flint stone into a spring of water!
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John Milton at ag 15 wrote this Paraphrase of the Psalm 113 / 114:
A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
This and the following Psalm were don by the Author at fifteen yeers old.
When the blest seed of Terah's faithfull Son,
After long toil their liberty had won,
And past from Pharian fields to Canaan Land,
Led by the strength of the Almighties hand,
Jehovah's wonders were in Israel shown, [ 5 ]
His praise and glory was in Israel known.
That saw the troubl'd Sea, and shivering fled,
And sought to hide his froth-becurled head
Low in the earth, Jordans clear streams recoil,
As a faint host that hath receiv'd the foil. [ 10 ]
The high, huge-bellied Mountains skip like Rams
Amongst their Ews, the little Hills like Lambs.
Why fled the Ocean? And why skipt the Mountains?
Why turned Jordan toward his Crystall Fountains?
Shake earth, and at the presence be agast [ 15 ]
Of him that ever was, and ay shall last,
That glassy flouds from rugged rocks can crush,
And make soft rills from the fiery flint-stones gush.
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/paraphrase_114/text.shtml
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