[2] Psalm 114 is used as a regular part of Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and various Protestant liturgies.

During the Romantic period, Felix Mendelssohn set the psalm in German, Gustav Holst in English, and Albert Kellermann in Hebrew.

The two central stanzas evoke with images full of life the miracle of the Red Sea and the passage of the Jordan.

Since the sixth century, the psalm has been used as a reading at Christian burial services, and also in ministry to those who are dying.

[9] In the Revised Common Lectionary, the Psalm appears in Year A on the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost.

Since the early Middle Ages, Psalm 114 has been performed at the office of Vespers on Monday, according to the Rule of St. Benedict (AD 530).

[14][15] In the Liturgy of the Hours today, the first part of Psalm 114 is sung or recited on Vespers Sunday.