A Passover Song

¹When the people of Israel left Egypt,[#Ex 12.51]

when Jacob's descendants left that foreign land,

²Judah became the Lord's holy people,

Israel became his own possession.

³The Red Sea looked and ran away;[#Ex 14.21; Js 3.16]

the Jordan River stopped flowing.

⁴The mountains skipped like goats;

the hills jumped around like lambs.

⁵What happened, Sea, to make you run away?

And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?

⁶You mountains, why did you skip like goats?

You hills, why did you jump around like lambs?

⁷Tremble, earth, at the Lord's coming,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who changes rocks into pools of water[#Ex 17.1-7; Nu 20.2-13]

and solid cliffs into flowing springs.