| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Psalm CXIV | | By Myrtilla E. Mitchell |
| | | WHEN Israel from proud Egypt’s yoke | |
| Of bondage first came forth, | |
| And the house of Jacob from the land | |
| Of strange tongues, in the North. | |
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| Judah His Sanctuary stood, | 5 |
| And Israel proud was His domain, | |
| The Sea beheld, and straightway fled, | |
| And Jordan backward, drove amain. | |
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| Like mountains, skipped the wethers, then, | |
| Like playful lambs, the mighty hills; | 10 |
| Oh Sea! Why flee’st thou about? | |
| And, Jordan, whence thy tiny rills? | |
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| Ye Mountains, that ye skip apace, | |
| Ye mighty hills, like tiny sheep; | |
| The earth in trembling fears the Lord, | 15 |
| For Jacob’s God ’tis now ye weep. | |
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| Who turneth to a watery pool | |
| The hard unstable rock, | |
| The flint unto a living fount | |
| Of waters, for His flock. | 20 | | | |
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