PSALTERIVM

PSALMVS CXIV — IN EXITV ISRAEL

When Israel Went Out of Egypt

Dilexi quoniam exaudiet Dominus is a thanksgiving psalm for deliverance from mortal danger. The verse 'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints' became central to the Church's theology of martyrdom. In the 1962 Breviary it appears at Sunday Vespers. The 'cup of salvation' (verse 13) acquired Eucharistic significance.

LATINE
In exitu Israel de Aegypto, domus Iacob de populo barbaro:
Facta est Iudaea sanctificatio eius, Israel potestas eius.
Mare vidit, et fugit: Iordanis conversus est retrorsum.
Montes exsultaverunt ut arietes: et colles sicut agni ovium.
Quid est tibi, mare, quod fugisti: et tu, Iordanis, quia conversus es retrorsum?
Montes, exsultastis sicut arietes: et colles, sicut agni ovium?
A facie Domini mota est terra, a facie Dei Iacob:
Qui convertit petram in stagna aquarum, et rupem in fontes aquarum.
ENGLISH
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:
Judea made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?
At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob:
Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters.
NOTA
FONS
Douay-Rheims (1609) / Vulgata
USUS
Passover, Easter Vigil, Vespers for the Dead
CONTEXT
Psalm 114 in Hebrew numbering (combined with 115 in some traditions). The opening of Dante's Purgatorio. Traditional psalm for burial processions.